diff --git a/snap/local/glib-spawn-no-close.patch b/snap/local/glib-spawn-no-close.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b12a650c8ca387f20b4c36cafb24e33f0f2d31e6..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/snap/local/glib-spawn-no-close.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
-# Disable closing file descriptors because the snap confinement has some
-# that it doesn't want us to close
-diff --git a/src/extension/implementation/script.cpp b/src/extension/implementation/script.cpp
-index a3896d41b6..88c6b826d5 100644
---- a/src/extension/implementation/script.cpp
-+++ b/src/extension/implementation/script.cpp
-@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ int Script::execute (const std::list<std::string> &in_command,
-     try {
-         Glib::spawn_async_with_pipes(working_directory, // working directory
-                                      argv,  // arg v
--                                     static_cast<Glib::SpawnFlags>(0), // no flags
-+                                     Glib::SPAWN_LEAVE_DESCRIPTORS_OPEN,
-                                      sigc::slot<void ()>(),
-                                      &_pid,          // Pid
-                                      nullptr,           // STDIN
diff --git a/snap/snapcraft.yaml b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
index e78c9c754ba3c6590b9964ab9d2a65070e89b693..8381ca3fad40c1b64bf1b3c80407bda58cfd4b09 100644
--- a/snap/snapcraft.yaml
+++ b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
@@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ parts:
       - -lib/inkscape/*.a
       - -*canberra*so* # We don't have sound permissions anyway
       - -usr/lib/*/gtk-2.0
-# TODO removed      patch -p1 --batch --directory=$SNAPCRAFT_PART_SRC --input=$SNAPCRAFT_PART_SRC/snap/local/glib-spawn-no-close.patch
     override-build: |
       sed -i.bak -e 's|Icon=${INKSCAPE_ICONPATH}|Icon=${SNAP}/share/inkscape/branding/inkscape.svg|g' $SNAPCRAFT_PART_SRC/org.inkscape.Inkscape.desktop.template
       snapcraftctl build
diff --git a/src/extension/implementation/script.cpp b/src/extension/implementation/script.cpp
index d6b0e337a368c253797031d1c784008ddf8452c5..e51d2e7e8c5e95097aab599563f62aac6cd1accb 100644
--- a/src/extension/implementation/script.cpp
+++ b/src/extension/implementation/script.cpp
@@ -754,14 +754,21 @@ int Script::execute (const std::list<std::string> &in_command,
     int stdout_pipe, stderr_pipe;
 
     try {
+        auto spawn_flags = Glib::SpawnFlags::DEFAULT;
+        if (Glib::getenv("SNAP") != "") {
+            // If we are running within the Linux "snap" package format,
+            // we need different spawn flags to avoid that Inkscape hangs when
+            // starting an extension.
+            spawn_flags = Glib::SpawnFlags::LEAVE_DESCRIPTORS_OPEN;
+        }
         Glib::spawn_async_with_pipes(working_directory, // working directory
-                                     argv,  // arg v
-                                     static_cast<Glib::SpawnFlags>(0), // no flags
-                                     sigc::slot<void ()>(),
-                                     &_pid,          // Pid
-                                     nullptr,           // STDIN
-                                     &stdout_pipe,   // STDOUT
-                                     &stderr_pipe);  // STDERR
+                                     argv,              // arg v
+                                     spawn_flags,       // spawn flags
+                                     sigc::slot<void()>(),
+                                     &_pid,         // Pid
+                                     nullptr,       // STDIN
+                                     &stdout_pipe,  // STDOUT
+                                     &stderr_pipe); // STDERR
     } catch (Glib::Error const &e) {
         g_critical("Script::execute(): failed to execute program '%s'.\n\tReason: %s", program.c_str(), e.what());
         return 0;