Hey There,
I’m working on this GH issue: https://github.com/tunix/alacritty-snap/issues/19
First we weren’t able to open nano. Fixed it by adding yet another library. But the issue owner made his point by trying to open GUI apps and that this is actually a general problem with the snap itself which I totally agree.
This is a classic app so it has access to various parts of the system. Initially, I thought that I only needed to embed dependencies that alacritty is statically compiled against. Things like fontconfig, libffi etc. With this amount of dependencies, alacritty seems to work. But now, I find myself adding other dependencies because some 3rd party app doesn’t work inside alacritty.
For starters, I added libtinfo6 and libncursesw6 libraries when nano didn’t work. Then I found out that I cannot start gedit or xeyes inside alacritty. If I use sudo, I’m able to run those apps. (nano related additions are in candidate channel as of now)
While trying to understand & fix the problems, I found @alexmurray’s emacs-snap and the forum posts he wrote. He started by using desktop-helpers and eventually got rid of it by adding some parts of it inside the snap. I followed a similar approach and now I’m able to run gedit without sudo. But I can’t run xeyes – (with sudo, I can)
What am I missing? Why can’t I run xeyes while I’m able to run gedit?