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  • Are you pressing Alt+F2 in the GDM login screen? You haven't logged in there, so none of the files in your ~/ are relevant, and therefore the executable needs to be in ~/.local/bin of the gdm user, not yours. Where are you expecting this to work? Once you are logged in or in the GDM? Commented Apr 24 at 18:58
  • @terdon once I'm logged in. Commented Apr 24 at 19:30
  • Then why is GDM relevant? Wait, when you say "GDM" what do you mean? You mean the Gnome Display Manager, right? The login screen? Or do you use it to refer to the gnome shell? Commented Apr 24 at 19:34
  • Sorry, my mistake. I mean gnome-shell. Because of the gnome GDM issue I linked, I thought perhaps it's related to either GDM or gnome-shell. Commented Apr 24 at 19:34
  • Please try this: press alt + f2 and then paste sh -c 'echo "$PATH" > /tmp/path', run it, and then add the contents of /tmp/path to the question. Commented Apr 24 at 22:38