snap applications icons missing in launcher wayland with zsh

[Swoorup Joshi]

This issue was reported before. https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1681547 and was marked solved, but the issue still exist. I just upgraded to dev build 18.04 and using wayland. `snap` applications are not listed under applications and cannot issue snap app commands on the terminal. I am using zsh. However this works fine under X11.

So I have posted the findings below:

```bash
➜ ~ snap --version
snap 2.32.5+18.04
snapd 2.32.5+18.04
series 16
ubuntu 18.04
kernel 4.15.0-15-generic
➜ ~ uname -a
Linux swoorup-W35xSS-370SS 4.15.0-15-generic #16-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 4 13:58:14 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
➜ ~ lsb_release -r
Release: 18.04
➜ ~ env | grep DATA
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/home/swoorup/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
➜ ~ firefox
zsh: command not found: firefox
➜ ~ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Developer Notes
atom 1.26.0 148 stable snapcrafters classic
core 16-2.32.3 4407 stable canonical core
discord 0.0.4 52 stable snapcrafters -
firefox 59.0.2-1 71 stable mozilla -
intellij-idea-community 2018.1.1 43 stable jetbrains classic
mailspring 1.2.1 209 stable foundry376 -
pycharm-community 2018.1.1 58 stable jetbrains classic
spotify 1.0.77.338.g758ebd78-41 13 stable spotify -
telegram-desktop 1.2.17 142 stable 3v1n0 -
tusk 0.10.1 15 stable klauscfhq -
vlc 3.0.1-4-g14a4897 190 stable videolan -
vscode 1.20.1-1518535978 27 stable flexiondotorg classic
webstorm 2018.1.1 22 stable jetbrains classic
```

Let me know if you need additional information.

[Neal Gompa (ngompa13)]

This seems similar to the issue recently reported in Fedora...

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

for zsh see bug 1640514

[Swoorup Joshi (swoorup)]

Everything works under X11, while still using zsh, how is that specific to zsh?

[Antti Kaihola (akaihola)]

This is also the case in Ubuntu 18.10. I installed PyCharm Professional from a snap package, and I can't find it in the GNOME launch menu (by hitting the Super/Windows key). The only way to launch it is by running the `pycharm-professional` command in the terminal. Once it is running, it's not possible to pin it or drag it into a different position in the dock panel.

[Bernhard Cygan (bcygan-xl)]

Happens to me when using fish.

[sirianni (eric-sirianni)]

+1

If I switch from GNOME (Xorg) to GNOME (Wayland) session, all Gnome launchers from snap-installed apps are missing (IntelliJ being a notable one).

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

This looks like an interaction between:

- differences in how GNOME x11 and GNOME wayland get their environment
- differences in how snapd injects environment to user sessions using bash/sh and zsh

I'm marking this as triaged / medium

[Lukas von Blarer (luksak)]

I have the same issue. Launching snap apps works after sourcing /snap/bin though. Application icons are still missing...

[Lukas von Blarer (luksak)]

Switching the default shell to bash makes the icons appear again.

[Lukas von Blarer (luksak)]

Does anyone have a temporary workaround?

[Bruno (brvollino)]

This has happened to me after I installed the 'flatpak' package. Uninstalling it solved the problem.

It creates a file /etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh which I believe was overwriting environment variables.

[Pierre Equoy (pieq)]

$ snap --version
snap 2.44.3+20.04
snapd 2.44.3+20.04
series 16
ubuntu 20.04
kernel 5.4.0-33-generic

Facing the same problem. I was using zsh as my default shell and a wayland session and could not find pycharm community from the GNOME Activities window (when pressing Super) even though it's installed and can be launched from the command line with `pycharm-community`.

Switching my default shell to bash (using `chsh`), then restarting the computer solved the problem.

[MasterProg (masterprog)]

Thanks Bruno, uninstalling Flatpak makes Snap icons appear in Wayland sessions.

That being said, is not the only issue I'm having with Wayland, so I guess I'll go back to Xorg for at least 2 more years.

$ snap --version
snap 2.45
snapd 2.45
series 16
ubuntu 20.04
kernel 5.4.0-37-generic

[Manoel (manoelnt0)]

> I'll go back to Xorg for at least 2 more years.

I did the same. For some reason, I upgrade two machines from 20.04 to 22.04 and decided to use wayland without coming back. In the first machine was working fine, without that bug of wayland snapd apps.

However, in another one, it happens and no matter what shell I config for the user (bash or zsh).

But I have a second user installed in this system and this issue doesn't occurs.