diff --git a/bin/bundle-appimage.sh b/bin/bundle-appimage.sh
index 5120d1b..52bcd6e 100755
--- a/bin/bundle-appimage.sh
+++ b/bin/bundle-appimage.sh
@@ -23,6 +23,22 @@ 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/
+
+# zig build substitutes @GHOSTTY@ in dist/linux/app.desktop.in with the absolute build
+# prefix, and the copy above drops the generated tree into AppDir verbatim, so the
+# embedded entries carry a build path such as
+# /__w/ghostty-appimage/ghostty-appimage/ghostty-<ver>/zig-out/bin/ghostty.
+# Integration tools (AM, GearLever, Soar, AppImageLauncher) rewrite Exec/TryExec when they
+# install the entry, so this is not user-visible breakage for them; normalize it anyway so
+# the entry shipped inside the image is portable on its own.
+for desktop_file in ./AppDir/*.desktop ./AppDir/share/applications/*.desktop; do
+	[ -f "${desktop_file}" ] || continue
+	sed -i -E \
+		-e 's|^Exec=[^ ]*/|Exec=|' \
+		-e 's|^TryExec=.*|TryExec=ghostty|' \
+		"${desktop_file}"
+done
+
 quick-sharun --make-appimage
 
 mkdir -p ./dist