[Solved] LibreOffice Desktop Icon Untrusted in Ubuntu

[Roger Davis]

I have a launch icon on the desktop for this. It used to work, until the latest(?) update. I can't find what I had to do before to make this work, I had the same problem when originally placing it on the desktop. When I click the icon, I get "The application launcher “libreoffice-startcenter.desktop” has not been marked as trusted. If you do not know the source of this file, launching it may be unsafe."

I tried to click the box "Allow executing file as program", but it is greyed out, so is unresponsive.

How do I fix this?

[RoryOF]

Are you really using Ubuntu 10.04? and OO 3.2.0? I run OO 4.1.1 on Xubuntu 15.04. My launcher command line is "openoffice4 %U" (no quotes) and this has worked reliably for many ubuntu versions, without any other adjustment.

On desktop icons (as opposed to toolbar launcher icons) Permissions are set so that I have Read Write rights, my group has read write and all others have "read only". Allow execute as program is also ticked.

[Roger Davis]

No, 14.04. Guess I need to update my info.

Figured out an answer:
- Open Terminal
- Type "sudo nautilus" (not the ")
- Ignore the messages, go to the opened Nautilus
- Open the Desktop folder
- Find the icon for LibreOffice
- Right click the icon
- Select "Properties"
- Click the "Permissions" tab
- Check the box by "Allow executing file as program"
- RESTART

Should now work.