I actually did this **dd if=(running system root volume) of=(local usb attached hard drive file) ** This gives me a full disk backup that would be no worse than if power got yanked. (I know laptops have batteries, for this case we are pretending to be a desktop with no UPS)

Even for a home system? Not a fleet of data center servers. I am currently using rsync to backup /home/<<user>>/ to the ssh server. I tend to make a lot of changes to the base Debian/KDE install.

Whew! Kernel: 6.1.0-16-amd64 and I just recently had a kernel update I think. Debian.

I took a moment to swich back to wayland, and tried "Task Manager" (I was using "Icons only Task Manager") both are showing this issue which is resolved by switching back to X.

The issue shows up under Wayland, not X. With X everything is working ok. I have yet to try a different Task Manager under Wayland though.

Here is the problem.

I had been running X before last night. I switched to Wayland just before knocking off. When I started again today I was now running Wayland. I just now switched back to X and now my icon for kpat works properly.

Is there some issue with the Icons-Only Task Manager under Wayland?

I was going back to Wayland because it seems important Distros are dropping X. I should be running under Wayland because at some point I will have to. I am back on X for now.

I have rebooted and now my path seems correct:

rhudson@adam:~$ echo $PATH /home/rhudson/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

I can type "kpat" at the command line and it launches.

But when I click the icon in the task manager it still says it can't find the program 'kpat'

I have included this line in my .bash_profile:

export PATH="$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"

In the very last line.

My PATH still looks like this:

rhudson@adam:~$ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

What could be changing my path after .bash_profile gets its say?

I am also adding it now to the last line of .bashrc

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I have only worked with .txt files and .odt (libre Office files) for the past few days. I have done updates as offered, but I have not installed anything, and I have not edited any system file as far as I can remember (before this morning, see below for a troubleshooting step taken).

And I have played Minecraft and watched Youtube and Freetube.

When I noticed this happening (by trying to launch kpat this morning) I went to look at /etc/profile and added /etc/games to the id=0 part of the path setting and that did not help any so I removed it again. - something is setting the path to SU's path along the way but I don't know what.