Installed snaps not visible in fish-shell on Fedora 23

[Thibaut Brandscheid]

System: Fedora 23, 64-Bit, Wayland, GOME

After installing snapd as described on http://snapcraft.io for Fedora 23, I installed the 'krita' snap. When using fish-shell the command 'krita' can not be found, but when using bash everything is fine.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Good catch, thank you for the report Thibaut.

 tag: shell

Mark

[Thibaut Brandscheid (k1au3-is-37)]

'zkrynicki' mentioned on Reddit that apps-bin-path.sh has been renamed to snapd.sh in the non-git version.

[Tim Jester-Pfadt (t-jp)]

99% sure that it is related to this bug report:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736660

When I switch to nouveau use GNOME 3.20/Wayland on Arch Linux the PATH variable for /snapd/bin also isn't exported.

[Thibaut Brandscheid (k1au3-is-37)]

Seems like it is a fish problem, because fish does not source /etc/profile.d (can't read *.sh files).

[Fabian Homborg (fhomborg)]

Speaking with my fish developer hat on:

It seems snap creates POSIX shell scripts in /etc/profile.d, which fish doesn't read because it doesn't use POSIX syntax.

Since fish 2.3.0, fish has three directories for additional configuration to be slotted in:

- "/usr/share/fish/conf.d" for packages (this is where the pkg-config variable "confdir" points to)

- "/etc/fish/conf.d" for administrators (really "$__fish_sysconfdir/conf.d" - which depends on the sysconfdir configure variable)

- "~/.config/fish/conf.d" for users (really "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fish/conf.d")

It reads all files that end in ".fish", but for each name only the one in the highest-precedence directory.

So, my ideal solution would be for snapd to make a file that contains _just_ components for $PATH (not `PATH=`) which is then read by a conf.d script for fish and a /etc/profile.d script for other shells.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Sounds reasonable, Fabian, thank you.

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

I'll fix this shortly, just testing the solution now.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Did you follow Fabian's guidance, Zygmunt?

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

Yes, I am experimenting with that now.

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

Hi

We'll try to fix this in the fedora package on the next upload. Please report further bugs on Fedora using https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/snapd/bugs

[Leonardo Donelli (learts92)]

I have the same problem on Ubuntu 17.10 under Wayland.

[Mahmoud Al-Qudsi (mqudsi)]

Can this behavior be changed upstream in snapd rather than fixed individually in fedora, ubuntu, etc.?