Libre Icons in Ubuntu disappear after loading file

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#1

I'm using LibreOffice Version: 4.2.0.1 Build ID:
7bf567613a536ded11709b952950c9e8f7181a4a
with 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

I had set up shortcuts using something like [libreoffice0.0 --writer
/path/filename] which of course works just fine.

Since I upgraded to 4.2 the correct LibreOffice icon displays on the sidebar
as Writer opens, but as soon as the document is displayed, the icon changes
to the "I don't know (question mark)" icon.

I tried switching to the more generic format of [xdg-open /path/filename]
which also works, but with the same results - icon is only correct until
document has finished loading.

It doesn't affect anything operationally (so far as I have discovered
anyway), but can anyone suggest what I need to do or change to correct this?

Thanks.

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
Has this already been fixed in a more recent version? (if there is one,
which i doubt)

If not it might be worth posting a bug-report about it and/or maybe try
reinstalling again

Nicely spotted! Good work there :slight_smile:
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

Hi Tom:

I had thought about doing that, but discovered that it was difficult to
reproduce consistently. So, for the moment, I'm chalking it up to some as
yet undiscovered "quirk," such as memory limitations or similar. I'll
re-post if I find that I can pin it down to where it can be reproduced
without fail. It's just odd, though.

Frank

#4

What was the desktop environment you were using and what version of Ubuntu?
I seemed to miss that part of the thread.

Unity can be a pain sometimes with LO. Mate has no issues at all, if I make sure I install the desktop menus correctly. I deal with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and how that 14.04 LTS will work the same way with MATE as 12.04LTS.

Yes there are a few "quirks" with LO. I sometimes get them due to the fact that I have over 400 font files installed that count as over 900 fonts and their styles [normal, bold, italic, bold-italic, condensed, etc.]. Sometimes LO does not like to show or access all of the fonts, depending on the version I am trying. 4.0.6 works fine, but I have not tried 4.1.4 yet.

#5

I'm using LibreOffice Version: 4.2.0.1 Build ID:
7bf567613a536ded11709b952950c9e8f7181a4a
with 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

I've never used Mate, only Unity, so can't comment on that.

My understanding is that Ubuntu 14.04 is the next long term release, but
from all I've heard I must say I'm quite nervous about upgrading when the
time comes.

#6

Yes you might have issues with a Beta 4.2.x.x.
I just - this afternoon - replaced 4.0.6 with 4.1.4 and will be testing it out for a bit.

I started with 9.04 or 9.10, kept 10.04 LTS till 12.04 LTS came out. I tried to update to 11.xx but has issues that ended up being 11.xx issues with my on-board video card that 10.04 did not have. I found out about that when I went to 12.04 and the same problem was there, but went away with a upgrade from NVIDIA on-mother-board to NVIDIA PCIe-card.

I have upgraded - not clean install - before on a laptop, but things keep being kept on the drive that is no longer needed. The clean install from 10.04 to 12.04 reduced the drive space of everything installed in the root folders other than "/home" by over 50 GB that the 11.04 to 12.04 upgrading without a clean install. I did this on a laptop. So anytime I "upgrade" it needs to be a clean install. The problem with that is I keep forgetting all these little things like the needed files to be able to lay "protected" DVDs on my Ubuntu desktop and a lot of other "stuff" that I need to get my work done. Took a few weeks to install everything [or remembering what is needed to be installed] that I had on my previous version of Ubuntu.

Once I install the OS, then I have to install MATE all over again and all of the tweaks for that desktop environment. Also the time to install all of the packages I use on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. When I installed 12.04 on a new drive, after the old one failed, it took over 16 hours to install the OS, MATE, and all of the packages, less all of the tweaks and such I keep forgetting to install till I need them. That is with a semi-fast quad processor desktop. It takes much more on my slower dual core desktop I dual boot with Win7.

#7

Hi :slight_smile:
I think the best policy right now is to sit&wait to see if anyone else
reports this problem in the near future. If they do we might be able
to get enough information to make a bug-report then.

I have had a similar case on Windows 7 when attempting to install MS
Office 2010. We had wanted all machines to have the same
configurations so i was editing the xml file on the server so that i
could go to each machine and just double-click the installer. I was
trying to find a way of pushing it out to all the machines to save
myself the walk but apparently it's not worth doing for less than 50
machines so i gave up and tried to catch machines when they weren't
being used rather than stopping people from working or doing it at a
scheduled time. My boss grabbed the DVDs off me and did his own
install on hos own machine and then told me off because his icons were
the generic broken-link type icon. His settings are not quite the
same either but no-one's noticed that. Everyone else's were fine. I
still don't really know exactly what is wrong with his machine but he
really doesn't like me messing with his machine. Hence his regularly
has problems and has even blue-screened a few times. However, that is
Windows and a different program so it's unlikely to be a similar
cause!
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: