[Solved] Where are the desktop icons LO 3.5 on Ubuntu 11.10

[dreamquartz]

I installed LO 3.5 on Ubuntu 11.10 and have no icons available for de the desktop.
Can not find them.

Anyone?

Dream

[peterroots]

when you unpack the zip file for LO you install all the deb files in the DEB folder but there is also a folder, in DEBS, called desktop-integration - you need to install the deb file in there as well (see here http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation/linux/ for details)

[dreamquartz]

Desktop-integration is installed, but the icons are not available.
The moment i.e. the Startcenter icon is placed on the Desktop, the name is: libreoffice3.5-startcenter.desktop. It is locked, and owned by root.
It does not show the Startcenter icon that is shown under Dash home.
None of the LO-icons can be placed on either the Desktop or on the launcher.

Dream

[RoryOF]

In an Ubuntu terminal type

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locate startcenter.png

This should show you where the Startcenter icon is; the other icons will be in the same location. I suspect there is something wrong with your install method; I have no LibreOffice experience, but installing OpenOffice on Ubuntu it is necessary to run the

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sudo dpkg -i *.deb

command twice: once in the DEBS directory, then again in the lower desktop-integration directory, which last installs the icons and links to them in the Applications : Office menu.

[tomek.pl]

Enter directory:

/usr/share/app-install/desktop

Find and right-click on "LibreOffice" file, choose "Copy to the desktop".

"Empty" icon named "LibreOffice" should appear on your desktop.

Open the terminal, write: locate startcenter.png.

There will be directories to LibreOffice icons.

Enter one of them, choose an icon of proper size and double click it - just
open and close it (I've chosen 48x48 icon from the directory:
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps).

Then right-click on "empty" icon named "LibreOffice" on your desktop and
choose "Properties".

Double click on the icon on the upper left corner of the "Properties"
window. In new "Last in use" window choose libreoffice-main.png file and
confirm your choise.

That's all.

[dreamquartz]

Turns out to be that itwsis not that difficult in our situation.
We use Ubuntu 11.10, with now LO 3.5.2.
We use Ubuntu Desktop, and from "Dash home" icons can me copied to the Dektop via select; hold left mouse button, and drag.
At that point the icon was copied to the Desktop, but nothing could be done with it.

When dragging the "startcenter", the name of the icon was: "libreoffice3.5-startcenter.desktop".
What did we do:
When going to "Properties" -> "Permissions" of the icon, you can see who the owner is. If it is the user, than a simple "Allow executing file as program" does the trick.
When the user is root, the user has to be accessed, so the "Allow executing file as program" can be ticked.
The icon will change to the proper icon.

Dream