Declaratively defining environment variables

sergiusens · April 7, 2017, 1:17pm

We have some tricks up our sleeves in snapcraft, this is one of the reasons we use the wrapper (among others)

sergiusens/telegram-snap/blob/master/snap/snapcraft.yaml#L26


  of all your personal or business messaging needs.
architectures:
  - build-on: amd64
confinement: strict
grade: stable
apps:
  telegram:
    environment:
      QT_XKB_CONFIG_ROOT: /usr/share/X11/xkb
      QT_IM_MODULE: xim
      TMPDIR: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
      WAYLAND_DISPLAY: no-wayland
      PATH: $SNAP/usr/local/bin:$PATH
    command: bin/desktop-launch $SNAP/migration $SNAP/bin/Telegram -workdir $SNAP_USER_DATA -noupdate
    plugs:
      - home
      - network-manager
      - network

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