diff --git a/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh b/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh
index 7735e3a..a351e6a 100755
--- a/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh
+++ b/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ APPIMAGE_GTK_THEME="${APPIMAGE_GTK_THEME:-"Adwaita:$GTK_THEME_VARIANT"}" # Allow
 export APPDIR="${APPDIR:-"$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")"}" # Workaround to run extracted AppImage
 export GTK_DATA_PREFIX="$APPDIR"
 export GTK_THEME="$APPIMAGE_GTK_THEME" # Custom themes are broken
-export GDK_BACKEND=x11 # Crash with Wayland backend on Wayland - We tested it without it and ended up with this: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/8541
+# export GDK_BACKEND=x11 # Monitor this closely. AppImage used to crash on Wayland!
 export XDG_DATA_DIRS="$APPDIR/usr/share:/usr/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS" # g_get_system_data_dirs() from GLib
 EOF
 
@@ -263,6 +263,14 @@ cat >> "$HOOKFILE" <<EOF
 export GI_TYPELIB_PATH="\$APPDIR/${gi_typelibsdir/$LD_GTK_LIBRARY_PATH//usr/lib}"
 EOF
 
+echo "Installing Gio modules"
+gio_moduledir="$(get_pkgconf_variable "giomoduledir" "gio-2.0" "$LD_GTK_LIBRARY_PATH/gio/modules")"
+copy_lib_tree "$gio_moduledir" "$APPDIR/"
+gio-querymodules "$APPDIR/${gio_moduledir/$LD_GTK_LIBRARY_PATH//usr/lib}"
+cat >> "$HOOKFILE" <<EOF
+export GIO_MODULE_DIR="\$APPDIR/${gio_moduledir/$LD_GTK_LIBRARY_PATH//usr/lib}"
+EOF
+
 case "$DEPLOY_GTK_VERSION" in
     2)
         # https://github.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk/pull/20#issuecomment-826354261