Wayland is no visitible from snap container
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Current evaluation
Closed as out of scope: maintainer bepri (2025-12-01) attributed the missing Wayland display in Opera and LosslessCut snaps to those apps' own snap project files, not Snapcraft. No code fix made.
Resolution: closed not a bug
Reason: Maintainer @bepri closed the report after stating on 2025-12-01 that other Electron/Chromium snaps (Discord, VS Code, Slack) work fine under Wayland and that Snapcraft "has no control over those packages". The fault lies in the third-party Opera/LosslessCut snap packaging, so no Snapcraft PR or commit resolves it.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
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### Bug description
The same bug on LossLessCut and Opera
LossLessCut and Opera is possible open only via commands.
`env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY -u XDG_SESSION_TYPE losslesscut`
`env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY -u XDG_SESSION_TYPE opera`
`opera --ozone-platform=x11`
`losslesscut --ozone-platform=x11`
The core issue appears to be that the Wayland display server is invisible to the Snap container, leading to immediate crashes upon launch.
**Links about bug:**
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-workspace/+bug/2131173
https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+bug/2131202
Bug report. Latest version of Opera is no possible open in Kubuntu
https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/bug-report-latest-version-of-opera-is-no-possible-open-in-kubuntu/49473
Issue with LosslessCut
https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/issue-with-losslesscut/49324
https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/2614
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Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
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| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed not a bug | Closed as out of scope: maintainer bepri (2025-12-01) attributed the missing Wayland display in Opera and LosslessCut snaps to those apps' own snap project files, not Snapcraft. No code fix made. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed not a bug | Closed as out of scope: maintainers attributed the missing Wayland display to the Opera and LosslessCut snap packaging, not Snapcraft. No Snapcraft code fix was made. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed as out of scope. Maintainers determined the Wayland visibility failure originates from the individual Electron app packages, not Snapcraft. No fix was applied, and users were advised to report the issue upstream to the respective application developers. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed as invalid. Maintainer attributed the Wayland crash to Electron app packaging rather than Snapcraft, advising users to report the issue to LossLessCut and Opera developers. No Snapcraft changes were made. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed as upstream. Maintainers attributed the Wayland visibility failure to upstream Electron app packaging rather than Snapcraft. Users were directed to report the bug to LossLessCut and Opera developers. No Snapcraft code changes were made. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed as rejected. Maintainer attributed the Wayland failure to Electron app packaging, not Snapcraft. No Snapcraft changes were made; users were advised to report the issue to the respective application developers. |
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Related work
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Related To:
lossless-cut#2614
(confidence 80%)
Upstream LosslessCut issue filed by the reporter for the same Wayland-in-snap launch failure
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #2131202 Opera and LossLessCut is no possible open in Wayland | snapcraft (launchpad) | open | Opera and LosslessCut snaps fail to start on Wayland (ENOENT on /run/user/1000/snap.$SNAP/wayland-0). Misfiled to snapcraft but ask is a snapd change; maintainer asked whether it is app-packaging fault, unanswered. |