content-snap-core22-lite

A lightweight content snap providing shared libraries, GTK themes and full Noto font coverage for core22 snaps — without FFmpeg or mpv.

The slim counterpart to content-snap-core22. Dropping the media stack removes the bulk of the runtime, while adding the Noto font families so CJK text and emoji render correctly inside strict confinement instead of showing as tofu boxes.

What's inside

Fonts	fonts-ubuntu, fonts-noto-core, fonts-noto-cjk, fonts-noto-extra, fonts-noto-color-emoji, fontconfig
Qt integration	qt5-gtk-platformtheme, qt5-image-formats-plugins
Themes & icons	adwaita-icon-theme, light-themes, gnome-themes-standard, dmz-cursor-theme
Locales	locales-all
Core libs	glib (+ libglib2.0-bin), gdk-pixbuf, libglu1-mesa, libxkbcommon0, samba-libs, libdb5.3, libslang2
Desktop integration	gsettings-desktop-schemas, shared-mime-info, xdg-user-dirs

Not included: ffmpeg, mpv. If your app decodes or plays media, use content-snap-core22 instead.

Base core22 (Ubuntu 22.04), amd64, strict confinement.

Using it in your app

Add the plug to your app's snap/snapcraft.yaml:

plugs:
  content-snap-core22-lite:
    interface: content
    target: $SNAP/content-snap-core22-lite
    default-provider: content-snap-core22-lite

Point your launcher at the mounted runtime:

environment:
  SNAP_DESKTOP_RUNTIME: $SNAP/content-snap-core22-lite

default-provider means snapd installs this snap automatically alongside your app — users never install it by hand.

Building it yourself

git clone https://github.com/rishabh3354/content-snap-core22-lite.git
cd content-snap-core22-lite
snapcraft

Related

• content-snap-core22 — adds FFmpeg, mpv and VA-API hardware acceleration
• pyqt5-runtime-core22 — adds PyQt5 and Qt 5.15
• pyqt5-runtime-core22-lite — PyQt5 without the media stack