Fix hardcoded build paths in .desktop Exec and TryExec#127
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Fix hardcoded build paths in .desktop Exec and TryExec#127Benibur wants to merge 1 commit intopkgforge-dev:mainfrom
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The Ghostty build produces a .desktop file with absolute paths from the build environment (e.g. /__w/ghostty-appimage/.../zig-out/bin/ghostty). When desktop integration tools like appimaged extract this .desktop file and install it on the user's system, TryExec fails because the path doesn't exist, causing the entry to be silently ignored by GNOME Shell. This replaces the absolute paths with just the binary name "ghostty", which the AppImage runtime resolves correctly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
The
.desktopfile embedded in the AppImage contains absolute paths from the CI build environment:Desktop integration tools like appimaged extract this
.desktopfile and install it in~/.local/share/applications/. Since theTryExecpath doesn't exist on the user's system, GNOME Shell silently ignores the entry — the app never appears in the Dash/Overview search.Fix
Replace absolute build paths with just the binary name
ghosttyinExecandTryExecbefore bundling the AppImage. The AppImage runtime resolves the binary correctly.Test
Before the fix, on Ubuntu 24.04 with GNOME Shell 46 + appimaged:
After manually creating a corrected
.desktopfile: