Another win for snaps

[Sam Varshavchik]

It's been known since 22 that the Firefox snap is broken in VNC session. It  
fails to start. If you search around you'll find plenty of gripes and  
mentions for the standard workaround of using a wrapper to set the  
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable. It has something to do with  
the cgroup that snaps run under.

I was hoping that this would get fixed in 24, alas it's not. There's no  
apparent rush to fix this. And now, as I'm using Firefox more extensively, I  
discovered another awesome snap feature: attempting to open a link to a  
document file that should open in libreoffice does …absolutely nothing. No  
response. But not only that, this leaves libreoffice semi-permanently  
borked. It would no longer open when run on its own, going forward.

After some searching around I figured out the problem. The failed attempt to  
launch libreoffice from Firefox results in a junk file  
/tmp/OSL_PIPE_100_SingleOfficeIPC* left behind, and that prevents  
libreoffice from starting on its own, going forward. Manually removing it  
allows to libreoffice to start on its own. Apparently this is a relatively  
new development, the breadcrumbs in Google led me to a different issue where  
this was the issue, and I confirmed this myself, so leaving this here for  
the search engine gods to find, and help other happy snap users to find out  
this awesome feature of snap, the one where you now must save the link  
separately, then open the saved document in libreoffice, manually.

Although I haven't verified this, I'm pretty sure that this also exists only  
when running Firefox in a VNC session. Otherwise, I would expect that this  
awesome feature would also be more widely known.

I can't wait for libreoffice itself getting snapified. Who knows what  
awesome features will that bring to the table…

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