diff --git a/bin/bundle-appimage.sh b/bin/bundle-appimage.sh
index 5120d1b..ab84aed 100755
--- a/bin/bundle-appimage.sh
+++ b/bin/bundle-appimage.sh
@@ -23,6 +23,24 @@ export ICON="./ghostty-${GHOSTTY_VERSION}/zig-out/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/ap
 
 quick-sharun ./ghostty-${GHOSTTY_VERSION}/zig-out/bin/ghostty
 cp -rf ./ghostty-${GHOSTTY_VERSION}/zig-out/share/* ./AppDir/share/
+
+# Ghostty's build substitutes @GHOSTTY@ in app.desktop.in / dbus.service.in with the
+# absolute path of the build prefix, and quick-sharun copies the entry into $APPDIR
+# verbatim. Integration tools that extract the entry (e.g. appimaged) then get a
+# TryExec that cannot exist, so the desktop environment hides it or fails to launch.
+# Reset those paths to the binary name the README documents and drop DBus activation,
+# which cannot work from an AppImage (quick-sharun removes DBusActivatable from the
+# top level entry; the copy below would bring it back).
+for desktop_file in ./AppDir/*.desktop ./AppDir/share/applications/*.desktop; do
+	[ -f "${desktop_file}" ] || continue
+	sed -i -E \
+		-e 's|^Exec=[^ ]*/|Exec=|' \
+		-e 's|^TryExec=.*|TryExec=ghostty|' \
+		-e '/^DBusActivatable=/d' \
+		"${desktop_file}"
+done
+rm -rf ./AppDir/share/dbus-1
+
 quick-sharun --make-appimage
 
 mkdir -p ./dist