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.

[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.

[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

[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]

[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.