Permission for snap applications
Solution 1
Snap problem
I got similar error message on 16.04 LTS MATE with Xorg:
$ cat /etc/os-release | grep PRETTY
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS"
$ export | grep XDG_SESSION
declare -x XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP="mate"
declare -x XDG_SESSION_ID="c2"
declare -x XDG_SESSION_PATH="/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0"
declare -x XDG_SESSION_TYPE="x11"
$ snap list | grep notepadqq
notepadqq 1.2.0-2 115 danieleds -
$ which notepadqq
/snap/bin/notepadqq
$ sudo snap run notepadqq
mkdir: cannot create directory '/run/user/0': Permission denied
No protocol specified
QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display :0.0
Aborted (core dumped)
$ pkexec snap run notepadqq
mkdir: cannot create directory '/run/user/0': Permission denied
QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display
Aborted (core dumped)
$ sudo notepadqq
mkdir: cannot create directory '/run/user/0': Permission denied
No protocol specified
QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display :0.0
Aborted (core dumped)
$ gksudo notepadqq
No protocol specified
QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display :0.0
$ sudo -u www-data notepadqq /var/www/html/index.html
2018/02/25 22:40:11.162682 cmd_run.go:562: WARNING: cannot create user data directory: cannot create "/var/www/snap/notepadqq/115": mkdir /var/www/snap: permission denied
cannot create user data directory: /var/www/snap/notepadqq/115: Read-only file system
So it is not Wayland issue.
May be it is other limitation of Snap. Anyway I reported bug 1751634 to launchpad.
Get deb-packaged Notepadqq and run it
We discovered, that notepadqq snap does not launch as root, so we
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Removing it and installing normal version from “Notepadqq Team” team PPA
snap remove notepadqq sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install notepadqq
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Then run it as normal user:
notepadqq
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And as root:
gksudo notepadqq
Hope this helps.
Solution 2
So, I was having the same problem. Searching the Web, I found a solution in a brazilian website. Obs: the apt repository version worked fine besides being deprecated, but it was ugly in my system...
Install notepadqq with snap as you normally would:
sudo snap install notepadqq
Then, run this commmand:
sudo snap connect notepadqq:removable-media
It solved for me, as the file I was trying to open was in another partition... Or so I think!
Solution 3
For anyone from Ubuntu 18.04
snap install notepadqq --devmode
lukasl1991
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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lukasl1991 almost 2 years
I have some trouble with the Ubuntu
notepadqq
package. After opening a file from my apache webroot I cannot see any content. Saving the file is also not possible. I thougt this would be a classic permission issue. Therefore, I changed the group of the webroot fromroot
towww-data
and added my user to this group. Permissions are 775, so in theory it should now be possible for me to edit files in my webroot. But nevertheless, when I open a file of this directory with notepadqq, it still only shows an empty file.When using
gksudo notepadqq
I get the following error message:No protocol specified QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display :0
I figured out that notepadqq is a so called snap application and I wonder if this is the reason for my problems.
Can someone give me a hint how I could fix this issue (without using 777 permissions)?
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aderchox almost 4 yearsEveryone coming from later versions of Ubuntu read this answer: askubuntu.com/a/1135983/883154
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lukasl1991 over 6 yearsThank you very much! The deb-packaged notepadqq works fine!
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lukasl1991 about 6 yearsI now run 18.04 but this doesn't work for me.
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lukasl1991 about 6 yearsI've tried this but it does not work. Notepadd++ tells me that the file cannot be opened because its parent directory does not exist.
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Geoffrey Wheeler about 5 yearsFrom 'sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq' I get ppa.launchpad.net/notepadqq-team/notepadqq/ubuntu cosmic Release 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80] E: The repository 'ppa.launchpad.net/notepadqq-team/notepadqq/ubuntu cosmic Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
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N0rbert about 5 years@GeoffreyWheeler It seems that the package is not available for cosmic. You have to write package request to the PPA owner to support this release using special form.
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user1708042 about 4 yearsnot available even in eoan (19.10)