diff --git a/mac/gramps.launcher b/mac/gramps.launcher
index f183725d6..54d48e548 100755
--- a/mac/gramps.launcher
+++ b/mac/gramps.launcher
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ bundle_etc="$bundle_res"/etc
 
 export XDG_DATA_DIRS="$bundle_data"
 
-export PATH="$bundle_contents"/MacOS
+export PATH="$bundle_contents"/MacOS:/bin:/usr/bin
 export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$bundle_lib"
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"
 export GTK_DATA_PREFIX="$bundle_res"