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@@ -360,6 +360,11 @@ in or maybe even restart. For my Gnome environment, it showed up within a
 few seconds. For any other desktop environment, you can launch Ghostty
 directly using `~/.local/bin/ghostty`.
 
+If Ghostty fails to launch using an app icon in your app launcher,
+ensure that `~/.local/bin` is on your _system_ `PATH`. The desktop environment
+itself must have that path in the `PATH`. Google for your specific desktop
+environment and distribution to learn how to do that.
+
 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