I just upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04, and so my Firefox installation was converted to a snap. This would be fine except that Firefox is no longer accepting keyboard input. Mouse input seems to work fine, but typing anywhere that should accept keyboard input yields nothing. I’ve looked for this question online in a few places, but haven’t seen it actually answered. I’m not even sure how to diagnose this, much less fix it.
I’ve switched back to the deb version of Firefox for now and that seems to work fine, but obviously I’d like the standard installation. Any clues out there? Thanks!
$ snap version
snap 2.56.2+22.04ubuntu1
snapd 2.56.2+22.04ubuntu1
series 16
ubuntu 22.04
kernel 5.15.0-46-generic
And I installed gedit and it had the same problem; not accepting keyboard input. However there were some interesting messages in the console…
$ sudo snap install gedit
[sudo] password for jason:
gedit 40.1-14-g0850b4ae32 from Canonical✓ installed
$ which gedit
/snap/bin/gedit
$ gedit
(gedit:18856): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 09:43:03.588: Error creating IO channel for /proc/self/mountinfo: Permission denied (g-file-error-quark, 2)
(gedit:18856): IBUS-WARNING **: 09:43:03.915: Unable to connect to ibus: Could not connect: Permission denied
(gedit:18856): IBUS-WARNING **: 09:43:08.252: Events queue growing too big, will start to drop.
(gedit:18856): IBUS-WARNING **: 09:43:08.332: Events queue growing too big, will start to drop.
(gedit:18856): IBUS-WARNING **: 09:43:08.413: Events queue growing too big, will start to drop.
(gedit:18856): IBUS-WARNING **: 09:43:08.484: Events queue growing too big, will start to drop.
(gedit:18856): IBUS-WARNING **: 09:43:08.580: Events queue growing too big, will start to drop.
(gedit:18856): IBUS-WARNING **: 09:43:08.644: Events queue growing too big, will start to drop.
(gedit:18856): IBUS-WARNING **: 09:43:08.732: Events queue growing too big, will start to drop.
