[snap] libreoffice cannot open files in /tmp (e.g. opened by browser)

Bug #1842986 reported by Reuben Thomas
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Bug Description

With the libreoffice snap, I get an error trying to open a .docx file from Firefox, saying that the file cannot be found. This appears to be because Firefox puts the file under /tmp, but libreoffice has a different /tmp in its process.

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

This is a long-standing, known issue: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/sharing-files-via-tmp/1613.

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