I am having a problem with getting my "brightness setting" to stay where I previously set it. It seems strange that you are offered the setting but I have to adjust it every time I start up.
Any thoughts?
I am having a problem with getting my "brightness setting" to stay where I previously set it. It seems strange that you are offered the setting but I have to adjust it every time I start up.
Any thoughts?
What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs?
And what can save the world except your Self?
Belief is powerful indeed.
It certainly is; I have done it.
I tried draging the launcher from the menu to the desktop as you could in gnome 2, but that didn't seem work, so I simply copied the /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-writer.desktop file to my desktop and it works great.
I edited the text from that file to shorten it and remove the many text lines related to foreign languages etc etc, but left the rest. You will need to make sure the file is executable for it to work, perhaps because the desktop file in /usr/share/applications for all libreoffice apps is just a link to the application's .desktop file at /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/writer.desktop etc, so I presume you could just copy the file from /usr/lib....writer instead of the link, but I didn't try that.
I have now tried doing that for my own information, and it works just as well, though the launcher on your desktop still needs to be executable.
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ajgreeny,
Thanks for the reply.
When I go to:
/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/writer.desktop
I get a message saying “ not marked as trusted” and I am unable to open it.
How do I make the launcher for LO Writer on my desktop executable?
That's because it is not executable.
Right click on it, go to Properties > Permissions tab and there is a tick-box you can click to enable execution.
Or for future reference you can use terminal. Find the file with command in terminalthen use commandCode:ls Desktopor whatever the file is called on your Desktop.Code:chmod +x libreoffice-writer.desktop
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Many thanks, ajgreeny.
That is just what I required!!
Cheers.
I'm glad this worked out for forkandles but thought I'd add just a bit. In Oneiric (which also used gnome3) the behavior was still quite simple, that is you could drag and drop Libreoffice apps from the classic menu to the desktop and they worked just fine. Right-clicking on the desktop icon and selecting properties looked "normal":
libreoffice_oneiric.jpg
But in Precise things are totally convoluted just dragging libre-writer to the desktop:
libreoffice_precise.jpg
But other apps in Precise still behave "normally":
other_apps_precise.jpg
And going to "/usr/share/applications/libreoffice-writer.desktop" displays the more "normal" or expected outcome:
Screenshot from 2012-05-14 12:39:33.jpg
So my conclusion is that this is a bad development decision and possibly a bug!
Maybe one of the devs had too much or too little caffeine that day
Thanks for that further info, kansasnoob.
It is a while now since I added those icons to ther desktop of my (classic gnome desktop) 12.04, and I can tell you and others that the situation is, not surprisingly, just the same in Xubuntu 12.04.
Code-tags --- Boot-Repair --- Grub2 wiki & Grub2 Basics --- RootSudo --- Wireless-Info --- SolvedThreads --- System-Info-Script
Code-tags --- Boot-Repair --- Grub2 wiki & Grub2 Basics --- RootSudo --- Wireless-Info --- SolvedThreads --- System-Info-Script
I havd been struggling with the issue of gnome vs unity but I thought I'd go ahead and give Precise a try but I've done something wrong because after doing most of the steps in the post (I didn't add the applets) I still have the side panel with the unity icons and restart didn't give me the option of choosing gnome classic. What would be the best way to go about fixing my error, a ny ideas?
thanks -
mystmaiden
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