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rafaellancas

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Registered: 2022-05-31

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[SOLVED] Libre Office: no shortcuts created in the launcher

So I have  a recent installed Arch on my machine and I want to install libreoffice on it, but no matter how I try to do it, pacman or yay, it does not add any shortcuts to the launcher.

I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but I'm on KDE/Plasma and recently I had to install gnome-keyring to make Vscode sincronize with github. For some reason, I think perhaps gnome-keyring is messing up with the permissions on the system, making pacman and yay buggy. I tried to install different programs like clementine and they all got their shortcuts added to the launcher normally.

Last edited by rafaellancas (2022-06-29 03:00:35)

philo

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Registered: 2015-01-26

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Re: [SOLVED] Libre Office: no shortcuts created in the launcher

This may help:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_entries

frabjous

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Registered: 2010-07-13

Posts: 367

Re: [SOLVED] Libre Office: no shortcuts created in the launcher

Output of:

ls -l /usr/share/applications/libre*

And

kbuildsycoca5 --menutest | grep libre

?

Try restarting plasma if you haven't...

Last edited by frabjous (2022-06-05 15:05:12)

rafaellancas

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Registered: 2022-05-31

Posts: 86

Re: [SOLVED] Libre Office: no shortcuts created in the launcher

Output of:

ls -l /usr/share/applications/libre*

And

kbuildsycoca5 --menutest | grep libre

?

Try restarting plasma if you haven't...

Thank you! I ended up making the links by myself, but these are the outputs of the commands you mentinoned:

 [rafael@pc ~]$ ls -l /usr/share/applications/libre*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Jun  2 15:10 /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-base.desktop -> /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/base.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Jun  2 15:10 /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-calc.desktop -> /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/calc.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Jun  2 15:10 /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-draw.desktop -> /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/draw.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Jun  2 15:10 /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-impress.desktop -> /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/impress.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Jun  2 15:10 /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-math.desktop -> /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/math.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Jun  2 15:10 /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop -> /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/startcenter.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Jun  2 15:10 /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-writer.desktop -> /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/writer.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 Jun  2 15:10 /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-xsltfilter.desktop -> /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/xsltfilter.desktop
[rafael@pc ~]$ 
[

and

[rafael@pc ~]$ kbuildsycoca5 --menutest | grep libre
kbuildsycoca5 running...
kf.service.services: The desktop entry file "/home/rafael/.local/share/applications/Office.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line
kf.service.sycoca: Invalid Service :  "/home/rafael/.local/share/applications/Office.desktop"
Education/Mathematics/  libreoffice-math.desktop
Education/Science/      libreoffice-math.desktop
[rafael@pc ~]$ 

frabjous

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Registered: 2010-07-13

Posts: 367

Re: [SOLVED] Libre Office: no shortcuts created in the launcher

kbuildsycoca5 is reporting errors; you should run it without the grep and see all the error messages and fix what you can; not sure whether or that's the reason for your previous problem...

rafaellancas

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Registered: 2022-05-31

Posts: 86

Re: [SOLVED] Libre Office: no shortcuts created in the launcher

kbuildsycoca5 is reporting errors; you should run it without the grep and see all the error messages and fix what you can; not sure whether or that's the reason for your previous problem...

Thank you! It showed me the same errors as before with the grep:

kf.service.services: The desktop entry file "/home/rafael/.local/share/applications/Office.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line
kf.service.sycoca: Invalid Service :  "/home/rafael/.local/share/applications/Office.desktop"

I tried to look for them on Google but no success. Any idea on how I can resolve these?

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Libre Office: no shortcuts created in the launcher

What is the contents of /home/rafael/.local/share/applications/Office.desktop

rafaellancas

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Registered: 2022-05-31

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Re: [SOLVED] Libre Office: no shortcuts created in the launcher

What is the contents of /home/rafael/.local/share/applications/Office.desktop

Thank you for your answer! I deleted the file and it stopped showing the errors. The only bad part was that I had to create the shortcuts all by myself, but this is a office only bug, so it's ok.

philo

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Registered: 2015-01-26

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Re: [SOLVED] Libre Office: no shortcuts created in the launcher

Would you mark the title of your thread as [SOLVED]?

rafaellancas

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Registered: 2022-05-31

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Re: [SOLVED] Libre Office: no shortcuts created in the launcher

Would you mark the title of your thread as [SOLVED]?

How do I do that? When I try to edit, it does not allow me to type anything on the title.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Libre Office: no shortcuts created in the launcher

might be too long, shorten it a little to actually reflect the issue you had to fix. You can also only edit the title in the first post.

Last edited by V1del (2022-06-09 21:18:15)