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I have recently started using Qutebrowser (again, lol). I wanted to write / use some simple user scripts to add some functionality, but on OSX I was having some issues with things not being in my PATH. I didn’t realize why / what was happening so I asked in the issues of Qutebrowser on github and quickly got my answer.

It turns out that for GUI apps on OSX they don’t inheirit the path that you set in your shell profile. I decided to fix that by adding the missing things to my PATH when Qutebrowser starts in by editing it in my config.py. Now it looks something like this at the start:

"""Qutebrowser configuration."""
import platform
import os
from os.path import expanduser

system = platform.system()
home_dir = expanduser('~')

if system == 'Darwin':
    # Add things to PATH so userscripts work
    path = os.environ['PATH']
    path += os.pathsep + home_dir + '/.pyenv/shims'
    path += os.pathsep + home_dir + '/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenv/shims'

Now I can add things to the PATH as needed for OSX!