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Snap version without themed window bar

marcoshalano

Plan

Premium

Country

Brazil

Device

Dell

Operating System

Ubuntu Linux 25.10

My Question or Issue

I just updated the Spotify's snap, and the window bar is like in the attached image.

I think someone forgot to add something in the snap, because the size is smaller than the older version where the window bar works, 1.2.74.477.g3be53afe.

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marcoshalano

It seems, for some reason, that the directory `$SNAP/gnome-platform` doesn't exist in the newer snap (90).

marcoshalano

I tried to remove and install again but it didn't work either.

marcoshalano

When I run a shell inside the revision 90, I got this error about the libpxbackend. When I do the same with release 89, I didn't get the error, so it seems this library is missing.

```

➜ snap run --shell spotify
libpxbackend-1.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load module: /home/mhalano/snap/spotify/common/.cache/gio-modules/libgiolibproxy.so
mhalano@glados:/home/mhalano$ spotify
Gtk-Message: 16:30:42.225: Not loading module "atk-bridge": The functionality is provided by GTK natively. Please try to not load it.

(spotify:1828484): libayatana-appindicator-WARNING **: 16:30:42.492: libayatana-appindicator is deprecated. Please use libayatana-appindicator-glib in newly written code.
mhalano@glados:/home/mhalano$

```

zicstardust

Same problem in the official .deb version.

zicstardust

Same problem in the official .deb version.
Tested on Debian 13.
Spotify client version: 1.2.77.358.g4339a634

Problem only occurs in the GNOME environment.

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marcoshalano

I just saw the revision 91 was released but didn't do any good about this problem.

zicstardust

I installed the latest testing version 1.2.79.427.g80eb4a07 and the problem persists.

jfy133

I have the same issue on GNOME based Ubuntu 24.04 on Spotify for Linux 1.2.82.428.g0ac8be2b

fabiangamer2215

I can confirm that I am experiencing the same error on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the latest Spotify .deb package.

clarkaddison

Just got this in a snap update this morning. It looks awful, I switched to the flatpak for now.

You can also try to snap revert back to a prior version, but I uninstalled it before I thought to do that so now I don't have an old version to revert to 😣

marcoshalano

Yeah, the revision 92 is now in the stable channel, which is aweful.

superoscar1759

Same problem in Ubuntu 24.04.4

Spotify version 1:1.2.82.428.g0ac8be2b

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wiktorw39

I got this issue after recent update of spotify, current version (the one with issue):

Spotify for Linux
1.2.82.428.g0ac8be2b
gnome, Ubuntu 25.10

prokill022

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Crazytje

Thanks for posting this, noticed this as well when the snap package updated and had to revert to the previous version.
Glad to know I'm not the only one with the problem and that it's now a know problem.

Looking forward to the next release with it fixed.
Thanks to everyone involved!

clarkaddison

Doh the change just made its way into the flatpak, don't update the flatpak if you're trying to avoid it!

OliverCalder

The flatpak is built by repackaging the official snap package, so yes it seems the issue with version 1.2.82 of the snap has made it to the flatpak as well.

Until Spotify addresses the issue, there are a few things you can do:

- `snap revert spotify`, if you still have the snap installed and you refreshed from the previous version

- `snap install --revision=89 spotify` if you want to install a working version (1.2.74) directly -- if not on amd64, fish around for nearby revision numbers for your architecture

- `snap refresh --hold=720h spotify` to hold snap refreshes for 30 days in the hopes the snap is fixed by then

yamcha67

Same problem on Fedora Workstation 43 (GNOME).

eperea

I'm seeing the same thing. Snap on Ubuntu 25.10.

SinisaPerovic

Same here with the Flatpak update on elementaryOS 8.1 (based on Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS)

Johnficca

I'm running Fedora Silverblue and it's a flatpak and I'm having the same problem.

elmagio

Same issue here with the Flatpak on Fedora 43. I'll add that there's really no good reason why we still don't have Client Side Decorations on the Linux client...

davelima

Same here on Fedora Workstation 43, GNOME, using the Flatpak version. Temporarily fixed it downgrading it to commit 6daa559db754864d93170313d42ba50642137fae5aa16b25b92dbf37fdfe252d

sudo flatpak update --commit=6daa559db754864d93170313d42ba50642137fae5aa16b25b92dbf37fdfe252d com.spotify.Client

MarmaladeOne

I'm experiencing the same issue. Here are my system details:

Ubuntu 25.10
Lenovo ThinkPad T480s
GNOME version 49
Spotify for Linux version 1.2.82.428.g0ac8be2b, installed via Snap

To temporarily fix the issue, I reverted to Spotify version 1.2.74.477.g3be53afe with the command `snap revert spotify`.

Bnuttn

same for me (.deb version, using debian 13 gnome)

zicstardust

GNOME doesn’t support wayland properly, for ideological reasons they refuse implementing server side decoration on wayland, so when Spotify runs under GNOME Wayland, it will fall back to this ugly CSD.

zicstardust

The problem only occurs in Gnome with Wayland; the temporary solution is to use Spotify with XWayland.

.deb version

Add the following arguments:

--ozone-platform=x11 --disable-features=UseOzonePlatform

Flatpak version:

flatpak override --user --unset-env=WAYLAND_DISPLAY --nosocket=wayland --nosocket=fallback-x11 --socket=x11 com.spotify.Client

and add in ~/.var/app/com.spotify.Client/config/spotify-flags.conf

--ozone-platform=x11
--disable-features=UseOzonePlatform

EDIT:

To persist the arguments in the .deb version, I have a script that adds a spotify-flags.conf file, similar to the flatpak version.

Github repository: zicstardust/spotify-debfixes

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KaorunIchijou

Thanks man

Bnuttn

thanks it worked!

marcoshalano

Thanks. What I did was copying the .desktop file to my local folder so I can edit without touching the original file, which would be rewrite after an update:

cp /usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
vim ~/.local/share/applications/spotify.desktop
<add the parameters to the line TryExec

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