topic Re: Snap version without themed window bar in Desktop (Linux)

Snap version without themed window bar

marcoshalano — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:53:23 GMT

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.

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

marcoshalano — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:57:32 GMT

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

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

marcoshalano — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:05:01 GMT

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

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

marcoshalano — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:36:19 GMT

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$

```

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

zicstardust — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:25:51 GMT

Same problem in the official .deb version.

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

zicstardust — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:24:57 GMT

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.

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

marcoshalano — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:31:36 GMT

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

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

zicstardust — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:43:32 GMT

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

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

jfy133 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:08:32 GMT

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

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

fabiangamer2215 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:19:25 GMT

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

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

clarkaddison — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:47:40 GMT

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 😣

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

marcoshalano — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:16:26 GMT

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

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

superoscar1759 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:52:24 GMT

Same problem in Ubuntu 24.04.4

Spotify version 1:1.2.82.428.g0ac8be2b

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

wiktorw39 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:25:15 GMT

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

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

prokill022 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:38:11 GMT

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

Crazytje — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:12:48 GMT

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!

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

clarkaddison — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:43:42 GMT

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

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

OliverCalder — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:43:20 GMT

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

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

yamcha67 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:25:15 GMT

Same problem on Fedora Workstation 43 (GNOME).

Re: Snap version without themed window bar

eperea — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:13:33 GMT

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