Audacity app has ugly interface and initial error message

saverio · February 23, 2020, 11:45am

Hi,
I have installed Audacity application (currently at version 2.3.3) from snap store and as soon as I run it the following error message appears:

then as you can see the interface is ugly, it seems that the gtk theme is not used.

Any possibility to solve this error message and to have the gtk theme?
Thanks in advance

lucyllewy · February 23, 2020, 4:18pm

See the GitHub issue for details:

github.com/diddlesnaps/audacity

Ubuntu 20.04: "UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 could not be found."

opened 09:11PM - 11 Feb 20 UTC

closed 05:42PM - 23 Feb 20 UTC

unholyeyebrows

bug

Hi I have installed the latest 20.04 Gnome nightly image and then installed A…udacity as follows: `sudo snap install audacity` Now every time I launch Audacity I see two pop-up windows after the log / splash screen: First error: ``` UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 could not be found. It has been removed from the list of recent files. ``` Then when I 'OK' the first error, I receive this second error: ``` audacity could not be found. It has been removed from the list of recent files. ``` If I then 'OK' this second error Audacity completes it's launch and on initial testing appears to be working fine. Any ideas what might be causing this? Thanks Nick

My latest comment is included below in case someone in snapd-land cares to weigh-in.

It seems that snapd has failed to parse the .desktop file correctly resulting in the Exec= line to include extra parameters that cause these dialog boxes. The file reads:
Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/audacity_audacity.desktop /snap/bin/audacity UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 audacity %F
As can be seen, audacity is included twice. The app is launched by /snap/bin/audacity and the three parameters after are passed to the app when launched. These parameters are what causes the popups because audacity is trying to open them as files.