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    LibreOffice Links Break when dragged to desktop

    I have a gnome desktop and menus and dont run unity.

    Can someone explain to me why when I drag LibreOffice Icons to the desktop, and then right mouse click on them and click properties, it tells me that they are broken links.

    I can open them in the 'Office' menu no problem, and have no problem with any other of my programs in any other groups, and can drag them to the desktop without issue, so why is LibreOffice misbehaving?

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    Re: LibreOffice Links Break when dragged to desktop

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    Re: LibreOffice Links Break when dragged to desktop

    no answers here, sorry
    but it does the same thing to me !
    12.04 gnome

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    Re: LibreOffice Links Break when dragged to desktop

    duoh!

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    Re: LibreOffice Links Break when dragged to desktop

    Sometimes this happens to me. I have to right click, go to properties, click the Permissions tab, and select "Allow executing file as a program" to get it to work. The Drawing, Database, and Formula apps never work as desktop icons or pinned Unity launcher shortcuts. I have no idea why.

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    Re: LibreOffice Links Break when dragged to desktop

    This thread reminds me of a cartoon I once read of a man who was shouting at his computer 'Why!' when he was looking at a forum for an answer to a problem, and the only post was of another person, who had asked the same question, ten years earlier, with no answers.

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    Re: LibreOffice Links Break when dragged to desktop

    Can I create new shortcuts in the ~/Desktop directory? if so, where would I look to aim the symbolic links?
    Last edited by Senior_Buckethead; June 8th, 2012 at 05:41 AM.

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    Re: LibreOffice Links Break when dragged to desktop

    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:

    Code:
    ../../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:

    Code:
    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:

    Code:
    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.

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