Documentation: The Basics―First Start assumes desktop icon and presence in `PATH`
#3,354 opened on Dec 16, 2025
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Description
The documentation's The Basics chapter contains a Basic Usage section. Its First Start subsection starts with:
To start CopyQ, double-click the program icon or run command
copyq. This starts the graphical interface which can be accessed from the tray (NOTE: on OS X the tray defaults to the top-right of the screen and is not to be confused with Launchpad).
This will be at least confusing to users of Microsoft Windows, since on that OS, the command needed would have to use an absolute or relative path, and refer to the CopyQ.exe binary. Moreover, at least on Windows, no desktop icon is created by default.
The situation appears to be the same when installing using AppImage.
A more typical way to start CopyQ would be to launch it from the Start menu. However, I believe CopyQ 13 is launched by default, so this may not be necessary.
The README's Using the App section has the same issue.