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is only sourced when the shell is a login shell. Most shells started by terminal emulators under a GUI are not login shells.Depending on how you connect to a machine, you may or may not get a login shell. Through SSH or similar may well get you a login shell. Using the text-console (usually through Ctrl+Alt+F1 through F6 on modern distros) also yields a login shell.
Try putting things in your
.bashrc
instead. That one is sourced regardless of login shell or not.If you're not using bash, substitute the relevant file.
.zshrc
and.config/fish
are the main two.Thanks, that works with the flatpaks. However, it doesn't seem to work with nix packages. I mean rofi doesn't detect the .desktop files for packages installed using nix.