This is most likely an issue with the snap packaging. Do you know where you installed the snap from?

Created attachment 124604 [details]
kate.out

Hi Christoph,

I installed it via the command: sudo snap install kate

which I found on https://snapcraft.io/install/kate/ubuntu

Btw, launching kate in terminal, by /snap/bin/kate, yields the (error) 
messages in the attachment (I don't know how to interpret them).

Hope you can help.

Regards, Peter


On 12/19/19 4:30 PM, Christoph Feck wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414623
>
> --- Comment #1 from Christoph Feck <cfeck@kde.org> ---
> This is most likely an issue with the snap packaging. Do you know where you
> installed the snap from?
>

Peter I've just installed the kate snap and can confirm that these both work, can you please re-test and advise if this is still an issue.

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