The gedit snap is able to save files to some of my home folders — but not all of them, e.g. ~/bin and ~/insurance. I can’t even edit standard items in my home folder, such as ~/.bashrc and ~/.profile.
In addition, I can’t edit system files, e.g. sudo -H gedit /etc/fstab.
This is extremely limiting.
I have been searching for hours to try to understand how to give permission to gedit for all of my folders, but I can’t find anything — at least, anything that I can understand.
Snap refuses to install gedit in classic mode:
$ snap install --classic gedit
Warning: flag --classic ignored for strictly confined snap gedit
I’ve been looking at connections, but I can’t understand them. Here are the ones for gedit:
$ snap connections gedit
Interface Plug Slot Notes
avahi-observe gedit:avahi-observe - -
content[gnome-3-28-1804] gedit:gnome-3-28-1804 gnome-3-28-1804:gnome-3-28-1804 -
content[gtk-3-themes] gedit:gtk-3-themes gtk-common-themes:gtk-3-themes -
content[icon-themes] gedit:icon-themes gtk-common-themes:icon-themes -
content[sound-themes] gedit:sound-themes gtk-common-themes:sound-themes -
cups-control gedit:cups-control :cups-control -
dbus - gedit:gedit -
desktop gedit:desktop :desktop -
desktop-legacy gedit:desktop-legacy :desktop-legacy -
gsettings gedit:gsettings :gsettings -
home gedit:home :home -
mount-observe gedit:mount-observe - -
network gedit:network :network -
removable-media gedit:removable-media - -
wayland gedit:wayland :wayland -
x11 gedit:x11 :x11 -
I could just install the standard non-snap gedit, whether from the standard repositories or a flatpak, but they both have a bug that the snap version doesn’t have.
How do I allow snap gedit to access all of my folders, please?