From 852249664bab4b4c009a81cde0256862f9cca38b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mitchell Hashimoto Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:34:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update README --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 800ad94f6..e5eb79827 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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