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Expand Up @@ -309,6 +309,15 @@ 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.

If you built ghostty with the flag `-fno-sys=gtk4-layer-shell` you may additionally
require the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` environment variable to be set to `$HOME/.local/lib`.
To avoid however globally polluting `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` when launching from a desktop
environment, you can simply patch the installed ghostty elf with `patchelf`:

```shell-session
patchelf --set-rpath '$ORIGIN/../lib' $HOME/.local/bin/ghostty
```

For system-wide installs, we recommend `/usr` (likely requires `sudo`):

```shell-session
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