[PLUG-TALK] Program can't open anything unless in ~/

Tomas Kuchta tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Wed Sep 6 02:57:30 UTC 2023


On Tue, Sep 5, 2023, 19:38 John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> I've never encountered this before with any program. The program in
> question is Aegisub-procles, a fork of Aegisub subtitle editor, to make
> it installable via Snap on Linux.


... Snip.....
>
> It's also weird. Why? If my file manager can see a file, then so can any
> installed program. I'm looking for a fix, but without a solution at
> least I'd like to understand what is causing this behavior.
> .


This is likely a snap feature - snap has its own filesystem, and I guess,
the authors think that users (should) keep all files in their home
directory. So, they simply allow access (similar to mount) to home dir and
you cannot traverse out of it.

You can try to soft link your data dir from your home - I guess that it
won't work either - and you will need to copy the data to your home. Or
modify the snap ....

This is the reason why most Firefox plug-ins/extensions don't work in
snap-ed Firefox, etc.

If you could get appImage version of the program - it would likely let you
open any files, but only using their full/absolute path.

Good luck, Tomas


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