[DESKTOP] Telegram Desktop from snap fails to load properly

[siabost]

Hi,
On Kubuntu 22.04LTS and was trying to use Telegram with two accounts. Using the standard repo V3.6.1 the app would crash after adding the second account and trying to access settings. It seemed OK with just one account loaded.
So, I downloaded the latest version via snap, V4.16.1. This takes a while to appear on start up and then circles endlessly so I'm unable to add accounts.
Starting the snap version from Konsole gives the following error messages/information:

kenny@kenny-HP-Studio-PC:~$ telegram-desktop
Gtk-Message: 14:20:31.037: Failed to load module "colorreload-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 14:20:31.038: Failed to load module "window-decorations-gtk-module"
Qt: Session management error: Could not open network socket
[ALSOFT] (EE) Failed to connect PipeWire event context (errno: 112)
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
QWidget::render: Cannot render with an inactive painter

Any ideas anyone on what is wrong and how to fix it?

NOTE: the directly downloaded click-to-run version from the Telegram website works perfectly!

Many thanks.

[oshunluvr]

You probably should notify the snap package maintainer.

[claydoh]

kenny@kenny-HP-Studio-PC:~$ telegram-desktop

Is this indicating the 'normal' application, or the snap, assuming both are installed?

$ which telegram-desktop


Snaps will be in /snap/bin
It depends on how one's $PATH hierarchy is set up. Normally, /snap/bin is below system (/bin and /usr/bin, etc) and home locations.

$ echo $PATH
/home/claydoh/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/home/claydoh/.local/bin:/home/claydoh/stl/prefix