What have you tried so far? Specifically, what folders have you tried to open?
At risk of sounding flippant, I presumed the statement you quoted just about covered it, it was not exaggeration
by any file or folder, I meant literally any file or folder. But for specifics:
/home/USER/development/
/home/USER/development/mygitrepo
/home/user/development/mygitrepo/src
/home/user/development/mygitrepo/src/something.py
not one of those was opened when using a file-chooser dialog from within code while using the snap when I tried.
Fair, it was the latest stable, but that has been updated and so I just reinstalled the latest stable snap:
$ snap version
snap 2.73+ubuntu25.10
snapd 2.73+ubuntu25.10
series 16
ubuntu 25.10
kernel 6.17.0-8-generic
architecture amd64
And this one is worse. Now it doesn’t launch from CLI, I can ONLY launch it from the app menu, and when launched that way there’s no way to open a folder or file as I mentioned.
Nothing happens:
bladernr@rocinante:~$ /snap/bin/code
bladernr@rocinante:~$ code
bladernr@rocinante:~$ snap run code
bladernr@rocinante:~$ snap run code ~/development/context-timer
bladernr@rocinante:~$ code ~/development/context-timer
bladernr@rocinante:~$ /snap/bin/code ~/development/context-timer
that is all that happens. the Code window never actually opens. Syslog only shows this:
2026-01-20T10:17:01.092288-05:00 rocinante systemd[3325]: Started snap.code.code-25a55a22-8e22-4898-8bc0-ad6e39f0ef48.scope.
So on this Jan 15 version, it is even more broken on 25.10. On the version before this I was at least able to open files when launching the snap version from CLI, now I cannot launch the snap version from CLI at all, with no errors, nothing I’ve found beyond that one line in syslog.
If I open it from the app menu, as I said, the window opens but then there’s no way to open a folder or file, but I can at least confiirm the snap is running per ps output:
$ ps axf |grep code3051618 pts/3 S+ 0:00 | | | _ grep --color=auto code
3049837 ? SLsl 0:01 _ /snap/code/219/usr/share/code/code --no-sandbox --force-user-env --ozone-platform=x113049839 ? S 0:00 | _ /snap/code/219/usr/share/code/code --type=zygote --no-zygote-sandbox --no-sandbox
3049840 ? S 0:00 | _ /snap/code/219/usr/share/code/code --type=zygote --no-sandbox
3049924 ? Sl 0:03 | | _ /snap/code/219/usr/share/code/code --type=zygote --no-sandbox
3049874 ? Sl 0:00 | _ /proc/self/exe --type=utility --utility-sub-type=network.mojom.NetworkService --lang=en-US --service-sandbox-type=none --no-
<SNIP>
Before:
Folder picker open
and after clicking the Select button:
Finally, I also tried on my 24.04 machine… installed the snap, and it fails to launch from CLI for a completely different reason (or maybe the same reason, but on 25.10 the error/traceback is suppressed?)
