diff --git a/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh b/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh
index 2d5a2a2..be654e5 100755
--- a/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh
+++ b/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ show_usage() {
     echo
     echo "Required variables:"
     echo "  LINUXDEPLOY=\".../linuxdeploy\" path to linuxdeploy (e.g., AppImage); set automatically when plugin is run directly by linuxdeploy"
-    echo
-    echo "Optional variables:"
-    echo "  DEPLOY_GTK_VERSION (major version of GTK to deploy, e.g. '2', '3' or '4'; auto-detect by default)"
+    #echo
+    #echo "Optional variables:"
+    #echo "  DEPLOY_GTK_VERSION (major version of GTK to deploy, e.g. '2', '3' or '4'; auto-detect by default)"
 }
 
 variable_is_true() {
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ search_tool() {
     done
 }
 
-DEPLOY_GTK_VERSION="${DEPLOY_GTK_VERSION:-0}" # When not set by user, this variable use the integer '0' as a sentinel value
+#DEPLOY_GTK_VERSION="${DEPLOY_GTK_VERSION:-0}" # When not set by user, this variable use the integer '0' as a sentinel value
+DEPLOY_GTK_VERSION=3 # Force GTK3 for tauri apps
 APPDIR=
 
 while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
@@ -119,6 +120,8 @@ if [ "$APPDIR" == "" ]; then
 fi
 
 mkdir -p "$APPDIR"
+# make lib64 writable again.
+chmod +w "$APPDIR"/usr/lib64 || true
 
 if command -v pkgconf > /dev/null; then
     PKG_CONFIG="pkgconf"
@@ -203,7 +206,7 @@ case "$DEPLOY_GTK_VERSION" in
         echo "Installing GTK 3.0 modules"
         gtk3_exec_prefix="$(get_pkgconf_variable "exec_prefix" "gtk+-3.0")"
         gtk3_libdir="$(get_pkgconf_variable "libdir" "gtk+-3.0")/gtk-3.0"
-        gtk3_path="$gtk3_libdir/modules"
+        #gtk3_path="$gtk3_libdir/modules" export GTK_PATH="\$APPDIR/$gtk3_path"
         gtk3_immodulesdir="$gtk3_libdir/$(get_pkgconf_variable "gtk_binary_version" "gtk+-3.0")/immodules"
         gtk3_printbackendsdir="$gtk3_libdir/$(get_pkgconf_variable "gtk_binary_version" "gtk+-3.0")/printbackends"
         gtk3_immodules_cache_file="$(dirname "$gtk3_immodulesdir")/immodules.cache"
@@ -211,7 +214,7 @@ case "$DEPLOY_GTK_VERSION" in
         copy_tree "$gtk3_libdir" "$APPDIR/"
         cat >> "$HOOKFILE" <<EOF
 export GTK_EXE_PREFIX="\$APPDIR/$gtk3_exec_prefix"
-export GTK_PATH="\$APPDIR/$gtk3_path"
+export GTK_PATH="\$APPDIR/$gtk3_libdir:/usr/lib64/gtk-3.0:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0"
 export GTK_IM_MODULE_FILE="\$APPDIR/$gtk3_immodules_cache_file"
 
 EOF
@@ -305,3 +308,19 @@ for directory in "${PATCH_ARRAY[@]}"; do
         ln $verbose -s "${file/\/usr\/lib\//}" "$APPDIR/usr/lib"
     done < <(find "$directory" -name '*.so' -print0)
 done
+
+# set write permission on lib64 again to make it deletable.
+chmod +w "$APPDIR"/usr/lib64 || true
+
+# We have to copy the files first to not get permission errors when we assign gio_extras_dir
+find /usr/lib* -name libgiognutls.so -exec mkdir -p "$APPDIR"/"$(dirname '{}')" \; -exec cp --parents '{}' "$APPDIR/" \; || true
+# related files that we seemingly don't need:
+# libgiolibproxy.so - libgiognomeproxy.so - glib-pacrunner
+
+gio_extras_dir=$(find "$APPDIR"/usr/lib* -name libgiognutls.so -exec dirname '{}' \; 2>/dev/null)
+cat >> "$HOOKFILE" <<EOF
+export GIO_EXTRA_MODULES="\$APPDIR/${gio_extras_dir#"$APPDIR"/}"
+EOF
+
+#binary patch absolute paths in libwebkit files
+find "$APPDIR"/usr/lib* -name 'libwebkit*' -exec sed -i -e "s|/usr|././|g" '{}' \;