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[Maximilian Federle <max.federle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's a side effect of the containerization. You should be able to do

XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority kicad5.kicad

Am Do., 21. März 2019 um 10:12 Uhr schrieb Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> I think it makes sense to put it under the github project such that it is easier for other people to find it and make fixes if needed in the future.
>
> But before this happens I would like to make sure it works properly and it is a think that can seamlessly supported.
>
> Does snaps not work over X forwarding? I just tried:
> kicad5.kicad
> PuTTY X11 proxy: Unsupported authorisation protocol
> 10:07:55: Error: Unable to initialize GTK+, is DISPLAY set properly?
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> And kicad did not show up. That is performing X forwarding with putty from windows via xming. Firefox opens fine in that very same shell...
>
> I would also like if other people will try the snap thing and report back before we pull it in.
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> On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 09:56, Maximilian Federle <max.federle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Nick,
>>
>> could you take a look now? I'm eager to have a recent release in the
>> store. I'm open to discussing all details (like the split out 3d
>> packages) if necessary.
>> We could/should also host the packaging under the KiCad github project
>> if you decide to publish an official package.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Max
>>
>> Am Fr., 15. März 2019 um 13:34 Uhr schrieb Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> >
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > It seems that I have it under my canonical account.
>> >
>> > I am not sure if access can somehhow be shared. If you add some instructions on the readme in your repo I will take a look at it.
>> >
>> > Nick
>> >
>> > On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 13:30, Maximilian Federle <max.federle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I've packaged KiCAD 5.1 as a snap package (https://snapcraft.io/) as
>> >> well as the libraries: https://github.com/ppd1990/kicad-snap
>> >>
>> >> It is not in the store yet, however a very outdated (also not building
>> >> anymore) version is: https://snapcraft.io/kicad-snap
>> >> The developer states that he doesn't have the time to maintain it
>> >> anymore and so I'd like to take over publishing more up-to-date
>> >> packages. Store guidelines recommend using a name without suffix, so
>> >> in this case that'd be "kicad" and not "kicad-snap".
>> >> However, "kicad" is already registered by some unknown (to me)
>> >> developer, but nothing is published under this name.
>> >>
>> >> So my questions are:
>> >>
>> >> 1)
>> >> Does anyone here hold the registration of the "kicad" name in the snap store?
>> >> If yes, would you agree to publish a package under it or transfer the name?
>> >>
>> >> 2)
>> >> Do you, as a project, have interest in such a package?
>> >> If yes, I could request a name transfer of the "kicad" snap name with
>> >> the backing of the upstream project.
>> >>
>> >> Thank you for this excellent piece of software and your time
>> >>
>> >> Max
>> >>
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