Hi Peter,
Thanks for your bug report.
I was one of the original authors the system-monitor extension however
no longer actively involved in the project. gnome-shell extensions are
not supported by Canonical/Ubuntu (unless they are installed in the
default session) or GNOME. You would need to fix system-monitor
extension to support querying for snaps in case the desktop file is not
found.
This could easily be done through the CLI with `snap list` and `snap
run`.
However a much nicer solution would probably be to use snapd-glib which
provides gobject-introspection bindings to snapd. I am not really
familiar with their API, but suspect it should provide similar
functionality to the CLI tool.
I am going to close this bug since its not really a bug in gnome-system-
monitor and could equally happen on any other distro that supports
snaps, if the user has installed gnome-system-monitor as a snap instead
of native packaging.
** Changed in: gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1819263
Title:
GNOME Shell applet can't open System Monitor installed as Snap
Status in gnome-system-monitor package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
It looks like the `gnome-system-monitor` package is installed as a
snap package since Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic by default [1]. Unfortunately,
this affects some GNOME Shell extensions.
The popular "system-monitor" extension [3][4] fails to locate the
system monitor executable to call and open it from the context menu.
A related bug report on GitHub [5] (issue #474) explains the problem
and documents that several users solve the issue by uninstalling the
snap and installing the gnome-system-monitor .deb package [2] instead.
Do we have to fix the GNOME Shell extension (if yes, how?), can this
issue be resolved in the snap package, or is that a permanent
restriction of the snap package? (i.e. wontfix)
[1]
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/8krkam/system_monitor_on_1804_is_a_snap_by_default/
[2] https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/gnome/gnome-system-monitor
[3] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/120/system-monitor/
[4] https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet
[5]
https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet/issues/474
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