How to give snaps access to /somedir

To my astonishment, it really looks like /home is hardcoded. mount-support.c contains:

    const struct sc_mount mounts[] = {
        {"/dev"},   // because it contains devices on host OS
        {"/etc"},   // because that's where /etc/resolv.conf lives, perhaps a bad idea
        {"/home"},  // to support /home/*/snap and home interface
    ...

Wow. That astonishes me. But there you have it.

Edit: See also Launchpad issue 1643706


Just run the app as if it is not a snap \o/

So for example chromium

  1. Use a menu editor eg. "Main Menu" to add a custom chromium "menu item" (this is what ubuntu uses to find apps when you press super+a) :
  2. Set Name eg.: Chromium Unsnapped
  3. Set Command: /snap/chromium/current/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --user-data-dir=~/ChrUnsnapped --class="ChrUnsnapped" %U
  4. Set an icon eg. Download a retro chromium logo
  5. save/close
  6. super+a (or Show applications icon at bottom left) find your new item and right-click to add to favorites enter image description here

<rant>

I am so super frustrated with snap that I can't configure my personal /stf dir like I have been doing for 15 years. Thank goodness for this hack, seems I'm going to have to do this for every freeken snap app :'( .

Yeah I know it is bad, but until there is a whitelist configuration, this seems to be the only way for things to go back to normal. I really don't want to put my stuff in /home, /mnt, /media please don't hate your users.

</rant>

Tags:

Snap

Recent Posts