Interface from Thunderbird/Firefox to LibreOffice/VLC

Bug #1773416 reported by philippe benaben
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
snapd
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

LibreOffice and VLC are installed in snap

When opening an attached document from Thunderbird, LibreOffice is launched but stop with an error message "/tmp/mozilla_XXXXX/YYYYYY.docx do not exist."

same with a video open with VLC
same when a document or video is download and open from Firefox.

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thank you

Revision history for this message
Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) wrote :

This is indeed expected, at least at a technical level, because each snap interacts with a private view of /tmp. As a form of isolation and to avoid accidental dependencies created through data shared through /tmp, snapped applications need a better form of exchanging data. I realize that there is nothing useful that can be done about this problem for now, apart from saving the files in your home directory for round-trip between programs.

Eventually we may either build some automatic mapping for files that are operated via /tmp or said applications will benefit from improvements to platform code that manages sandboxed applications, like the portal system.

affects: snappy → snapd
Changed in snapd:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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