LibreOffice Links Break when dragged to desktop

[Senior_Buckethead]

Thanks for the insight. You know its the wierdest thing since everything else drags to the desktop (I wish I could send you a screenshot, but I wouldnt have a clue how to), except Libre Office. Your right about the directory. From properties of a dragged icon it is:
[CODE]
../../lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/draw.desktop
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Your right about the fix, it does work. Thank you.

You know, its getting late here, and you have sudo chown fred:fred I almost typed in

sudo chown fried:chicken

perhaps me thinks its time for bed.

[Azdour]

Hi,

It's either time for bed or food Glad that its working. Could you mark this thread as solved, thanks.

[BrianH_1]

Hi,

It looks like when you drag the libreoffice application to the desktop it creates a symbolic link to a directory that does not exist. In your Desktop directory you will see the link goes to:

../../lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/

And using 'cd' you cannot get to this directory. Gnome Classic under 12.04 must have a bug when drag and dropping applications from the menus to the desktop.

Furthermore if you create the correct symbolic link yourself to /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/writer.desktop you cannot launch it because you get the message:

Untrusted application launcher

On Ubuntu 10.04 it creates the correct link when you have dragged it to your desktop, but you get the same "untrusted" error dialog and it will not launch.

So I am guessing that the only option left as you have said is to create your own desktop file. There may be an easier way to do this, but I ended up having to do it this way via terminal for librewriter:

cd /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/
sudo cp writer.desktop ~/Desktop
cd ~/Desktop
sudo chown fred:fred writer.desktop
chmod 755 writer.desktop

Now I have a launcher on my desktop that correctly launches librewriter.

This worked perfectly for Libreoffice - Thanks
I have the same problem with screenshot
What is the appropriate code / modification of the above code for screenshot?
Thanks