Hi! I have encountered this problem when trying to...

# compose-desktop

[Anton Popov]

Hi!
I have encountered this problem when trying to develop my first desktop app: contents of the PATH environment variable acquired from System.getenv() are much smaller when running a packaged Compose for Desktop app on macOS.
However, when running the same app from the IDE using various Gradle tasks, PATH env var has full content.

I've filed a bug on YouTrack, but also wanted to ask here — has anyone encountered this?

[jw]

Yes, this is normal macOS behavior

[jw]

If you are not launching from a shell then you will not see shell-specific path additions

[Anton Popov]

Can you point me to the macOS docs mentioning this behavior? I would really appreciate that 😄

Is there a way to change this behavior? My usecase is this: I use JGit to commit some code, and the git repo has pre-commit hook (bash script) that checks if you have git-lfs binary installed. I not, it fails the commit.

[jw]

I think you can edit /etc/paths or add an entry to /etc/path.d (whatever it's called)

[jw]

Otherwise there's some launchctl stuff in https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/51677, but who knows if that still works today

[Anton Popov]

Thanks a lot! It seems like I will be doing this: AppleScript-generated launcher app -> open -a /Applications/ComposeApp.app , delay 1 (second) , and close Terminal 😅
Seems unconventional and hacky, but works.

[Colton Idle]

just curious. what are you building that requires env vars? im intrigued