set Snap home and userData directories

Author: mbektas

src/main/main.ts

@@ -9,12 +9,19 @@ import {
   getBundledPythonPath,
   installBundledEnvironment,
   isDevMode,
+  isSnap,
   jlabCLICommandIsSetup,
   setupJlabCommandWithUserRights,
   versionWithoutSuffix,
   waitForDuration,
   waitForFunction
 } from './utils';
+
+if (isSnap()) {
+  app.setPath('home', process.env.HOME);
+  app.setPath('userData', `${process.env.HOME}/.config/${app.getName()}`);
+}
+
 import { JupyterApplication } from './app';
 import { ICLIArguments } from './tokens';
 import { SessionConfig } from './config/sessionconfig';

src/main/utils.ts

@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ export function isDevMode(): boolean {
   return require.main.filename.indexOf('app.asar') === -1;
 }
 
+export function isSnap(): boolean {
+  return process.platform === 'linux' && process.env.SNAP !== undefined;
+}
+
 export function getAppDir(): string {
   let appDir = app.getAppPath();
   if (!isDevMode()) {