I’ve had this problem since 19.04 or 19.10 and thought it’d at some point fix itself with system updates, since I thought it was just a bug. Now I am on 20.04 and this problem still persists. Apps such as mumble or spotify take 8-10 seconds to start. When still had the non-snap versions of these, they started much faster. I didn’t really find any solution for this online and don’t know how to debug these problems.
Hope somebody can help me here 
Regards Marcel
Is that startup so slow each time you run the application?
If it does, then some data would be useful. Can you run
$snap run --trace-exec spotify
and close the window when it appears. Then paste the log into this topic.
Some more information can be collected using etrace tool from @ijohnson. Please snap install --classic --edge etrace . Then run:
$ etrace exec --use-snap-run --discard-snap-ns --no-window-wait spotify
Close then window when it pops up, collect the load and attach it here.
@ijohnson do you have any other suggestions as to what we could try to collect here?
This invocation is slightly wrong, try without the --no-window-wait option:
$ etrace exec --use-snap-run --discard-snap-ns spotify
if that doesn’t work you might need to specify the spotify windows name manually with --class-name=
Actually I just installed spotify and ran this myself, it seems that spotify is in the same boat as chromium, in that there is a lot of decompression that needs to happen for the spotify snap to launch. If I use etrace on my machine I see a total of 8.18 seconds with tracing turned on and 7.17 seconds with tracing turned off, but if I recompress the snap to use lzo, I see 5.09 seconds with tracing turned on and 3.57s with tracing turned off.
So, I just ran this for “mumble”. It appears Jack is part of the problem. The first 5 seconds are pretty much spent messing with Jack (Further down below is the spotify output):
~$ etrace exec --use-snap-run --discard-snap-ns mumble
2020/06/15 18:41:32 xdotool.go:84:
connect(2) call to /dev/shm/jack-1000/default/jack_0 failed (err=No such file or directory)
exec of JACK server (command = "/usr/bin/jackd") failed: No such file or directory
connect(2) call to /dev/shm/jack-1000/default/jack_0 failed (err=No such file or directory)
connect(2) call to /dev/shm/jack-1000/default/jack_0 failed (err=No such file or directory)
connect(2) call to /dev/shm/jack-1000/default/jack_0 failed (err=No such file or directory)
connect(2) call to /dev/shm/jack-1000/default/jack_0 failed (err=No such file or directory)
connect(2) call to /dev/shm/jack-1000/default/jack_0 failed (err=No such file or directory)
attempt to connect to server failed
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:38.891 JackAudioSystem: unable to open client due to 2 errors:
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:38.892 JackAudioSystem: JackFailure - overall operation failed
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:38.892 JackAudioSystem: JackServerFailed - unable to connect to the JACK server
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:39.911 G15LCDEngineUnix: Unable to connect to G15Daemon.
<D>2020-06-15 18:41:39.913 libopus 1.2.1 from /snap/mumble/1141/bin/libopus.so.0
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:39.916 CELT bitstream 8000000b from /snap/mumble/1141/bin/libcelt0.so.0.7.0
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:39.917 CELT bitstream 80000010 from /snap/mumble/1141/bin/libcelt0.so.0.11.0
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:39.921 Theme: "Mumble"
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:39.921 Style: "Dark"
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:39.922 --> qss: ":themes/Mumble/Dark.qss"
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:39.923 Locale is "en_GB" (System: "en_GB")
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:39.959 propsReply "An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type=\"method_call\", sender=\":1.98\" (uid=1000 pid=4456 comm=\"/snap/mumble/1141/bin/mumble \" label=\"snap.mumble.mumble (enforce)\") interface=\"org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties\" member=\"GetAll\" error name=\"(unset)\" requested_reply=\"0\" destination=\"org.freedesktop.NetworkManager\" (uid=0 pid=929 comm=\"/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon \" label=\"unconfined\")"
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:39.960 nmReply "An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type=\"method_call\", sender=\":1.98\" (uid=1000 pid=4456 comm=\"/snap/mumble/1141/bin/mumble \" label=\"snap.mumble.mumble (enforce)\") interface=\"org.freedesktop.NetworkManager\" member=\"GetDevices\" error name=\"(unset)\" requested_reply=\"0\" destination=\"org.freedesktop.NetworkManager\" (uid=0 pid=929 comm=\"/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon \" label=\"unconfined\")"
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:39.967 "Object path cannot be empty"
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.027 Database SQLite: "3.22.0"
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.030 Overlay: Listening on "/run/user/1000/snap.mumble/MumbleOverlayPipe"
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.035 Updating application palette
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.053 GlobalShortcutX: Using XI2 2.3
Mumble Link plugin: error creating shared memory
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.457 AudioInput: Opus encoder set for VOIP
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.457 AudioInput: 96000 bits/s, 48000 hz, 480 sample
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.457 PulseAudio: Starting input alsa_input.usb-SteelSeries_SteelSeries_Siberia_800-00.mono-fallback
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.457 PulseAudio: Starting output: alsa_output.usb-SteelSeries_SteelSeries_Siberia_800-00.analog-stereo
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.461 AudioOutput: Initialized 1 channel 44100 hz mixer
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.468 AudioInput: Initialized mixer for 1 channel 44100 hz mic and 0 channel 48000 hz echo
warning: The VAD has been replaced by a hack pending a complete rewrite
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.535 Database SQLite: "3.22.0"
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.535 OpenSSL Support: 1 (OpenSSL 1.1.1 11 Sep 2018)
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.618 ServerHandler: TLS cipher preference is "TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256:TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES128-SHA"
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.702 OSInfo: Failed to execute lsb_release
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:40.711 TextToSpeech: Failed to contact speech dispatcher.
<W>2020-06-15 18:41:42.869 PulseAudio: Forcibly disconnected from PulseAudio
50 exec calls during snap run:
Start Stop Elapsed Exec
0 175022 175.02284ms /usr/bin/snap
12426 21911 9.485006ms /sbin/apparmor_parser
37679 42958 5.279064ms /snap/core/9289/usr/lib/snapd/snap-seccomp
51333 52506 1.173019ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
53202 54481 1.279115ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
55489 56597 1.108884ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
57446 58671 1.225948ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
59329 60546 1.216888ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
61367 62512 1.145839ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
63210 64295 1.085042ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
64931 66128 1.197099ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
66359 67631 1.271963ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
68062 69177 1.115798ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
69381 70531 1.149892ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
70747 71896 1.148223ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
72125 73143 1.017093ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
73504 74830 1.32513ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
75095 76180 1.085042ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
76442 77741 1.299858ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
78026 79074 1.048803ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
79299 80471 1.171112ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
80801 81800 998.973µs /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
81994 83210 1.216888ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
83423 84774 1.350164ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
84990 86022 1.032829ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
86799 88173 1.374006ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
88953 90007 1.053094ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
152071 160794 8.723974ms snap-update-ns
167659 173197 5.537986ms snap-update-ns
175022 180223 5.201101ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-exec
180223 294759 114.535093ms /snap/mumble/1141/bin/desktop-launch
185338 187860 2.521991ms /bin/date
202138 204674 2.536058ms /usr/bin/md5sum
205821 208400 2.57802ms /bin/cat
209475 213327 3.85189ms /bin/grep
229774 233689 3.914117ms /usr/bin/head
235225 238932 3.706932ms /usr/bin/head
240350 243963 3.612995ms /usr/bin/head
245653 249603 3.950119ms /usr/bin/head
251199 255003 3.803968ms /usr/bin/head
256641 260289 3.648042ms /usr/bin/head
261900 265924 4.024028ms /usr/bin/head
267593 271159 3.566026ms /usr/bin/head
272537 276211 3.673076ms /usr/bin/head
279445 283843 4.398107ms /bin/ln
285743 289454 3.710985ms /bin/rm
289957 293707 3.750801ms /bin/ln
294759 10415644 10.120885848s /snap/mumble/1141/bin/mumble
367547 377722 10.175943ms /bin/sh
370594 377614 7.02095ms /snap/mumble/1141/usr/bin/jackd
Total time: 10.415644884s
Total startup time: 10.422044663s
As for spotify, this seems to be slow for other reasons:
~$ etrace exec --use-snap-run --discard-snap-ns spotify
2020/06/15 18:44:16 xdotool.go:84:
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/marcel/snap/spotify/41/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini': File exists
Gtk-Message: 18:44:23.273: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 18:44:23.274: Failed to load module "gail"
Gtk-Message: 18:44:23.275: Failed to load module "atk-bridge"
92 exec calls during snap run:
Start Stop Elapsed Exec
0 174102 174.102067ms /usr/bin/snap
12651 22262 9.610176ms /sbin/apparmor_parser
37942 42951 5.00822ms /snap/core/9289/usr/lib/snapd/snap-seccomp
51259 52342 1.08385ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
53005 54058 1.052141ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
54713 55875 1.161098ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
56535 57563 1.027107ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
58163 59204 1.04022ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
59834 60929 1.094102ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
61588 62706 1.118898ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
63360 64449 1.088142ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
64744 65864 1.119136ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
66112 67156 1.044034ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
67359 68502 1.142978ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
68700 69843 1.142978ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
70391 71547 1.155138ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
71784 72838 1.054048ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
73096 74139 1.043081ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
74341 75474 1.133918ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
75701 76731 1.029968ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
76931 78052 1.121997ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
78556 79632 1.075983ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
79808 80948 1.139163ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
81217 82319 1.10197ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
82490 83714 1.223087ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
84295 85402 1.106977ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
86165 87352 1.187086ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-device-helper
152667 160288 7.621049ms snap-update-ns
166029 172028 5.998134ms snap-update-ns
174102 179137 5.035877ms /usr/lib/snapd/snap-exec
179137 5671209 5.492071151s /snap/spotify/41/bin/desktop-launch
185789 188496 2.707004ms /bin/date
195873 199928 4.054069ms /usr/bin/getent
202076 204406 2.330064ms /usr/bin/md5sum
205688 208242 2.553939ms /bin/cat
209290 212965 3.675937ms /bin/grep
215591 224358 8.766174ms /bin/mkdir
240860 262720 21.859169ms /usr/bin/head
264410 270267 5.85699ms /usr/bin/head
272068 277879 5.810022ms /usr/bin/head
279639 285048 5.409002ms /usr/bin/head
286627 292179 5.552053ms /usr/bin/head
293629 298964 5.335092ms /usr/bin/head
300668 306063 5.395889ms /usr/bin/head
307635 312993 5.35798ms /usr/bin/head
314780 320143 5.362987ms /usr/bin/head
321856 327193 5.337953ms /usr/bin/head
329495 335098 5.603075ms /snap/spotify/41/usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-update
352018 359136 7.117986ms /usr/bin/realpath
360234 365714 5.479097ms /usr/bin/realpath
366858 372311 5.452156ms /usr/bin/realpath
373254 378484 5.230903ms /usr/bin/realpath
379653 384924 5.270957ms /usr/bin/realpath
385993 391294 5.300045ms /usr/bin/realpath
392309 397923 5.614042ms /usr/bin/realpath
399233 404803 5.570888ms /usr/bin/realpath
407697 413328 5.63097ms /bin/rm
420917 426817 5.900859ms /bin/ln
427304 460036 32.732009ms /bin/rm
462388 506103 43.714046ms /bin/cp
508063 518148 10.085821ms /bin/mkdir
519056 528064 9.008884ms /bin/mkdir
528132 534847 6.714105ms /bin/rm
532999 541120 8.121013ms /bin/ln
535909 543509 7.600069ms /bin/rm
544118 553917 9.799003ms /bin/mkdir
546875 555362 8.486986ms /bin/ls
557388 565340 7.952928ms /bin/ls
559262 567610 8.347034ms /usr/bin/dirname
567229 576165 8.935928ms /bin/ls
568022 574532 6.510972ms /bin/ln
575234 585290 10.056018ms /bin/rm
592686 603260 10.573148ms /bin/ln
597265 610922 13.656139ms /bin/ls
627091 635545 8.45313ms /bin/mkdir
627363 635390 8.027076ms /bin/ls
637008 645200 8.192062ms /bin/ls
647258 657207 9.949922ms /bin/ls
659082 667272 8.189201ms /bin/ls
670195 678529 8.333921ms /bin/ls
680356 688157 7.801055ms /bin/ls
689821 697606 7.784128ms /bin/ls
699542 712222 12.680053ms /bin/ls
713849 721822 7.972955ms /bin/ls
724469 736743 12.274026ms /bin/ls
738359 746953 8.593082ms /bin/ls
748842 756809 7.966995ms /bin/ls
758390 766607 8.216142ms /bin/ls
768636 776803 8.166074ms /bin/ls
777431 803308 25.877952ms /snap/spotify/41/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/glib-compile-schemas
5671209 13490458 7.819248914s /snap/spotify/41/usr/share/spotify/spotify
8790257 13472625 4.682367086s /proc/self/exe
Total time: 13.510096074s
Total startup time: 13.516399578s
How exactly do I recompress a snap and does that possibly clash with updates, e.g. would I have to do this after every update?
Yes this is just a local test I did to see if part of the issue is related to the size of the snap and its compression, because during first cold-cache startup, the kernel needs to decompress the snap squashfs filesystem, and that takes a significant amount of time for some snaps such as chromium, and also it appears spotify.
Plot-twist, spotify is just a web-page wrapped in an application frame 
But yeah, as for mumble, it’s a native app (QT), so that shouldn’t really be the case for it, right?
Mumble seems to be in the same situation, where the xz compressed .snap file is only 141 MB, but it’s 578M uncompressed. So it looks like most of the files that need to be decompressed for the real application to run are big dynamic libraries living in $SNAP/usr/lib/… which is what leads to the slowdown. Other large snaps like i.e. supertuxkart don’t have the same problem because while they are large snaps, most of their files are very small and the app doesn’t need to read them before displaying a window and loading the other files happens in the background whereas snaps like chromium, spotify, mumble, etc. need to decompress large dynamic library files before they can display their window.
Okay, so while compression might play a part in this piece, jack seems to be the bigger problem.
I do have jackd installed, but the mumble-snap can’t access it, therefore failing and retrying multiple times.
I tried installing the non-snap version, which starts almost instantly. However, as soon as I uninstall jackd, it takes longer as well. E.g. the snap startup-time minus compression and such. So, I am assuming this is a mumble problem afterall and there should be some way for mumble to notice that jack isn’t even installed and give up right away. I’ll create an issue on the mumble repository I guess.
While fixing Mumble’s detection of Jackd would help, it might also be helped from Snapd’s side by introducing an appropriate jack interface for Snaps to use. cc/ @jdstrand.
IIRC, there is a jack1 interface which can be connected for the mumble snap already. Does startup time improve if this is manually connected?
I need to brush-up on my knowledge of the available interfaces it seems
If you have the opportunity, timings for a snap recompressed with no compression would be interesting.
Nope. If the connection is made, but there’s no jackd on the other (outside) end of it, then it still loops for 5 seconds looking for it.
It appears the looping is solved in mumble 1.3.1. Sadly that version isn’t snapped yet. It’d be interesting to measure that version as well tho, I assume.
Here’s the numbers for spotify w/o any compression on my machine:
$ etrace -n=5 exec --no-trace --reinstall-snap --cmd-stderr=/dev/null --cmd-stdout=/dev/null --delete-snap-user-data --use-snap-run spotify
Total startup time: 4.098153703s
Total startup time: 4.180128398s
Total startup time: 4.845975432s
Total startup time: 4.890130566s
Total startup time: 4.36818876s
here’s reproducer instructions if you want to try it out yourself with a different snap or other compression options to mksquashfs:
$ snap install etrace --candidate
etrace (candidate) 0.8-3-g3a0801e from Ian Johnson (anonymouse67) installed
$ snap download spotify
Fetching snap "spotify"
Fetching assertions for "spotify"
Install the snap with:
snap ack spotify_41.assert
snap install spotify_41.snap
$ snap ack spotify_41.assert
$ snap install spotify_41.snap
spotify 1.1.26.501.gbe11e53b-15 from Spotify✓ installed
$ etrace -n=5 exec --no-trace --reinstall-snap --cmd-stderr=/dev/null --cmd-stdout=/dev/null --delete-snap-user-data --use-snap-run spotify
Total startup time: 8.009559806s
Total startup time: 7.78893528s
Total startup time: 7.800626833s
Total startup time: 7.21393162s
Total startup time: 7.7114391s
$ unsquashfs -d spotify spotify_41.snap
Parallel unsquashfs: Using 32 processors
21693 inodes (25649 blocks) to write
[==============================================================================================================================================================================================\] 25649/25649 100%
created 11978 files
created 2319 directories
created 9715 symlinks
created 0 devices
created 0 fifos
$ mksquashfs spotify spotify-uncomp.snap -noappend -no-fragments -all-root -no-xattrs -noI -noD -noF
Parallel mksquashfs: Using 32 processors
Creating 4.0 filesystem on spotify-uncomp.snap, block size 131072.
[==============================================================================================================================================================================================-] 15934/15934 100%
Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, gzip compressed, data block size 131072
uncompressed data, uncompressed metadata, no fragments,
no xattrs, uncompressed ids
duplicates are removed
Filesystem size 576651.40 Kbytes (563.14 Mbytes)
99.28% of uncompressed filesystem size (580847.60 Kbytes)
Inode table size 964326 bytes (941.72 Kbytes)
100.00% of uncompressed inode table size (964326 bytes)
Directory table size 631620 bytes (616.82 Kbytes)
100.00% of uncompressed directory table size (631620 bytes)
Number of duplicate files found 1210
Number of inodes 24012
Number of files 11978
Number of symbolic links 9715
Number of device nodes 0
Number of fifo nodes 0
Number of socket nodes 0
Number of directories 2319
Number of ids (unique uids + gids) 1
Number of uids 1
root (0)
Number of gids 1
root (0)
$ snap install spotify-uncomp.snap --dangerous
spotify 1.1.26.501.gbe11e53b-15 installed
$ etrace -n=5 exec --no-trace --reinstall-snap --cmd-stderr=/dev/null --cmd-stdout=/dev/null --delete-snap-user-data --use-snap-run spotify
Total startup time: 4.098153703s
Total startup time: 4.180128398s
Total startup time: 4.845975432s
Total startup time: 4.890130566s
Total startup time: 4.36818876s
* note that the --delete-snap-user-data option to etrace will back up the data before deleting by using snap save; you can restore it afterwards with snap restore (getting the snapshot ID from snap saved) if you don’t want to log back into spotify, etc. after doing this
Thanks Ian. So is it correct to say that there is a definite 3.0-3.2 second cost that is explicitly attributable to compression in that scenario? Looks like 4.0-4.8s uncompressed vs 7.2-8.0s compressed.
I wonder how that uncompressed speed compares to an ‘unpacked’ speed where there is genuinely no squashfs, and also to alternative compression algorithms.
I’ve extended this testing…
Uncompressed spotify (baseline):
$ etrace -n=5 exec --no-trace --reinstall-snap --cmd-stderr=/dev/null --cmd-stdout=/dev/null --delete-snap-user-data --use-snap-run spotify
2020/06/23 14:34:06 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 4.993984903s
2020/06/23 14:34:36 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 4.792224208s
2020/06/23 14:35:02 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 4.610342656s
2020/06/23 14:35:27 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 4.870108883s
2020/06/23 14:35:54 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 4.477815203s
Uncompressed spotify using the ld.so.cache hooks and layout definition:
$ etrace -n=5 exec --no-trace --reinstall-snap --cmd-stderr=/dev/null --cmd-stdout=/dev/null --delete-snap-user-data --use-snap-run spotify
2020/06/23 14:44:52 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 4.385469376s
2020/06/23 14:45:19 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 3.999746978s
2020/06/23 14:45:47 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 3.937697485s
2020/06/23 14:46:27 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 4.643594469s
2020/06/23 14:47:15 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 4.979062321s
Uncompressed GIMP after removing the ld.so.cache hooks and layout (baseline):
$ etrace -n=5 exec --no-trace --reinstall-snap --cmd-stderr=/dev/null --cmd-stdout=/dev/null --delete-snap-user-data --use-snap-run gimp
2020/06/23 14:52:55 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 9.209377178s
2020/06/23 14:53:33 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 7.463573413s
2020/06/23 14:54:12 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 7.304713701s
2020/06/23 14:54:47 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 7.242807007s
2020/06/23 14:55:24 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 7.466519579s
Uncompressed GIMP with the ld.so.cache hooks and layout definition:
$ etrace -n=5 exec --no-trace --reinstall-snap --cmd-stderr=/dev/null --cmd-stdout=/dev/null --delete-snap-user-data --use-snap-run gimp
2020/06/23 14:56:39 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 7.480865766s
2020/06/23 14:57:21 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 7.032257138s
2020/06/23 14:57:58 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 6.973159155s
2020/06/23 14:58:39 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 7.141058569s
2020/06/23 14:59:23 xdotool.go:84:
Total startup time: 6.923540649s
/me quietly files a bug for myself to figure out this error