Passing parameters to a snap package

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 26 May 2019 at 18:58, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 24.05.2019, 15:26 +0100 schrieb Colin Law:
> > I want to pass a command line parameter to an application when I run
> > snap start <application>
> > Google suggests that it is necessary to edit the Exec line in the
> > desktop file in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications to do this.  Is
> > that correct?  It seems a bit of an issue if there is no way of doing
> > this via the command line.
> >
> this is a matter of the snap packager ... snap itself hands over all
> commandline options when you execute /snap/bin/<command>.
>
> that said ... snaps often use wrappers to adapt to the environment but
> if the packager did not hand over "$@" to the actual exec call of the
> command in such a wrapper then cmdline options will be ignored.

OK, thanks.

>
> ciao
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