[SOLVED] Desktop launchers not working on laptop

[tropdoug]

HI guys,

I have a desktop machine and a Toshiba A100 laptop. Both have new clean installs of 7.10 on them (not prepared to move to 8.04 yet until I learn more) My wife prefers icons on the laptop, so for openoffice.org word processor, I right clicked the menu and created a desktop launcher. The command code is

ooffice -writer %U

when clicked the icon darkens, and nothing happens. When the menu item is clicked all is well, the program opens. When I put the command in a terminal I got

/hom/kim/%U does not exist

but if I remove the %U it opens the program.

So I removed the %U from the launcher command line, and it still won't work. I have tried this with a number of other launchers, and found that none will work on the desktop. I have done exactly the same thing on the desktop machine, and all work perfectly.

Any ideas?

[Hagar Delest]

Try soffice instead of ooffice.

[tropdoug]

Just tried that, no difference. any other ideas? anyone?

[Hagar Delest]

And if you right click on the desktop to create the launcher and then browse the files until you find the soffice script in the /OpenOffice.org 2.4/program folder?

[tropdoug]

and where can I find that folder, I have been searching and cannot find it? also what is the Linux equivalent of a MS Exe file for launching it? By the way what is soffice? I thought it was always ooffice

[Hagar Delest]

soffice or ooffice (may depend on the version you're using) are the file to be launched. They can be in /usr/lib/openoffice or /opt/openoffice.org 2.4.