gedit snap fails to save or open files in miscellaneous directories including dot-folders, ~/bin, and system folders.
Bug #1897562 reported by
Paddy Landau
This bug affects 4 people
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gedit (Ubuntu) |
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Low
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Bug Description
The snap version of gedit prevents viewing and editing files outside a strictly limited set of folders. For example, it cannot change files in standard folders ~/bin, ~/.local, ~/.config, ~/.ssh, or standard files such as ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile. Even "sudo -H gedit /etc/fstab" doesn't work. Using sudoedit doesn't work, as access to /var/tmp is rejected.
EDIT: ~/bin is now available to gedit. EDIT: Nope, not any more.
As there is a bug in the non-snap versions [1], the snap version is important, but sadly it is unusable for a certain number of cases.
I understand that the only solution is to make gedit available in classic confinement.
Please would you do this.
Thank you
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description: | updated |
summary: |
- gedit needs classic confinement + gedit snap fails to open fails in user dot directories |
summary: |
- gedit snap fails to open fails in user dot directories + gedit snap fails to save or open files in miscellaneous directories + including dot-folders, ~/bin, and system folders. |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
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Thank you for your bug report, what error do you get when trying to edit a file in ~/bin? Standard folders in the userdir should be working. Restriction to dot directories is a know limitation though...