On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 06:04:17PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra via Mutt-users wrote:

> > If you start mutt via ssh or as a direct command in some
> > terminal's profile, this may well differ from what you get if you
> > directly start a shell.  That can easily be the reason that PATH
> > contains ~/bin in your shell sessions but not mutt's.

> Thank you for this. I have now figured this out. mutt was being
> called by a function called xbuffy and what happened was that my new
> installation of Fedora 44 does not include this path by default so I
> had to explicitly include it in my .bashrc. But because xbuffy had
> been called before I figured this out, there was the problem of the
> path not being found. Now this is fixed by killing and restarting
> xbuffy.

Another aspect of this kind of problem is X11 vs. Wayland. I don't
know which Fedora 44 uses, but you may want to read this Stack
Exchange thread:

https://superuser.com/questions/1658072/whats-the-wayland-equivalent-of-xsession

and maybe this Gnome discourse thread (warning: hostile territory!)

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-shell-wayland-run-command-how-can-i-set-or-change-path/36596

-- 
Ian

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