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@ -340,6 +340,28 @@ window for the existing instance. You can disable this behaviour with the
`--gtk-single-instance=false` flag or by adding `gtk-single-instance = false` to
the configuration file.**
### Linux Installation Tips
If you're planning to use a build from source as your daily driver,
I recommend using the `-p` (prefix) flag for `zig build` to install
Ghostty into `~/.local`. This will setup the proper FHS directory structure
that ensures features such as shell integration, icons, GTK shortcuts, etc.
all work.
```
$ zig build -p $HOME/.local -Doptimize=ReleaseFast
...
```
With a typical Freedesktop-compatible desktop environment (i.e. Gnome,
KDE), this will make Ghostty available as an app in your app launcher.
For any other desktop environment, you can launch Ghostty at `~/.local/bin/ghostty`.
This _isn't required_, but `~/.local` is a directory that happens to be
on the search path for a lot of software (such as Gnome and KDE) and
installing into a prefix with `-p` sets up a directory structure to ensure
all features of Ghostty work.
### Mac `.app`
To build the official, fully featured macOS application, you must