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Mitchell Hashimoto
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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 few seconds. For any other desktop environment, you can launch Ghostty
directly using `~/.local/bin/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 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 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 installing into a prefix with `-p` sets up a directory structure to ensure