Another win for snaps

[Owen Thomas]

On Fri, 13 Sept 2024 at 22:15, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com>
wrote:

> 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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