Merge pull request 'Document the Wayland icon-cache-needs-relogin gotcha' (#45) from docs/wayland-icon-cache-note into main

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@@ -1554,3 +1554,9 @@ cp ~/.claude.json ~/.claude.json.bak && jq 'with_entries(select(.key | startswit
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 This backs up your config and removes the corrupted marketplace entries. Claude Code will re-download them cleanly on the next startup.
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+### App Icon Missing After Installing (Linux)
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+If Triple-C's icon shows as generic or blank right after installing — in the app menu, taskbar, and window titlebar alike — **log out and back in.**
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+Desktop shells (GNOME Shell, KDE Plasma) cache the list of installed apps and their resolved icons in memory when the shell starts, for performance. A freshly installed package's icon files land on disk correctly and its install hooks do rebuild the on-disk icon cache, but an already-running shell doesn't always notice — on X11 there used to be a way to soft-restart just the shell (GNOME's Alt+F2 → `r`) to force a reload, but under Wayland the shell *is* the compositor, so restarting it means ending the session. Logging out and back in starts a fresh shell that reads the current on-disk state, which picks the icon up.