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FedKad
Asked: 2020-06-18 08:03:34 +0800 CST

atom editor (snap) opens with two strange tabs

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I have a project with several files that are opened automatically when I launch the atom editor.

Recently, the atom editor (version 1.48) starts with two empty files with strange names:

ATOM_DISABLE_SHELLING_OUT_FOR_ENVIRONMENT=false

and

atom

It tries to save the first file in my home directory and the second file to the /usr/bin directory (which is not possible due to permissions, of course).

So, I reverted to atom version 1.47 (snap revision 252) where this problem does not occur.

Is there something wrong with revision 257 of atom snap?

Update: Same problem with version 1.49.0 too!

Update: Same problem with version 1.50.0 too!

snap atom 20.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I able to get solve this without re-installing /changing installation source by doing the following:

    • Close tabs without saving (delete the files if you had previously saved them)
    • Exit/Close Atom completely
    • Open a terminal and navigate to /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/
    • sudo open with your preferred text editor: sudo nano atom_atom.desktop
    • Truncate the 'Exec' line to Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/atom_atom.desktop /snap/bin/atom (i.e., remove the last parameters that open those files)
    • Save the file (overwriting the existing) and restart Atom; the tabs should no longer appear
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