Snap kate package fails to start in wayland session

[christoph at cullmann.io]

On 2024-02-03 01:00, Marek Byk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use kate from snap. Unfortunately, it cannot be run in a wayland
> session:
> 
> kate --version
> 
> qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
> 
> When I installed the qt5-wayland package and set
> QT_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins, kate started
> correctly in the wayland session. Of course, this is a temporary
> solution, for the purpose of verifying the problem.
> 
> It seems to me that in the snapcraft.yaml file in the stage-packages
> should be added qtwayland5 (reference:
> https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/problem-launching-qt-snaps-in-wayland/7055).

Hi,

I think that was fixed with:

https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/commit/ea465e32a5c5ef429165ef124002e410825ad7b9

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> Regards, Marek