George Georgovassilis writes about information technology architecture
When installed as a snap package in Ubuntu 24.04, Gedit displays wrong colours and some menus freeze. The solution is to disable the opengl permission. Either through Settings -> Apps -> Permissions: or on the command line: snap connect gedit:opengl
I think that Ubuntu 22.04 doesn't remove old snap packages when they become unused because on my system this command: snap list --all shows a long, long list of packages. User chipaca found an elegant solution [sh]: LANG=C snap list --all | while read snapname ver rev trk pub notes; do if [[ $notes = … Continue reading Removing unused snap packages
Under Ubuntu 22.04, when Skype is installed as a snap, some menus are blank (+ it keeps freezing the entire computer sometimes). There's a simple workaround [1]: disable "access to opengl" in the snap store properties. I don't know, yet, what else this'll break... but we'll find out soon. [1] Some snap application menus don't … Continue reading Skype/Snap menus are blank
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