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#1 2017-01-02 18:34:12

sarcokiller
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Libreoffice icons missing [Gnome]

Hi all,
I've searched about this for about 2 hours but i had no luck to find a solution. I've just made a fresh install of arch and i've installed Libreoffice through the command:

pacman -S libreoffice

When i open a file i have no icons in the topbar and in the gnome favourites application bar. (as you can see in the following image)

http://imgur.com/fGxK71b

If i add from the all apps section a libre office app to favourites, the icon is showing but when i click on the icon another empty icon shows up. ( following image)

http://imgur.com/OtS4VXk


It happens with stock icons theme too, however I'm using Paper icons theme.

I hope that someone can help me.

Last edited by sarcokiller (2017-01-03 01:53:51)

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#2 2017-01-02 20:44:19

c00ter
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From: Alaskan in Washington State
Registered: 2014-08-28
Posts: 386

Re: Libreoffice icons missing [Gnome]

Hello @sarcokiller and welcome to Arch Linux.

You do not state what your 2 hour search entailed. Since you have a fresh Arch and GNOME DE, are you aware that GNOME 3.22 now defaults to the Wayland backend rather than X? This may cause a wide variety of problems, including such as yours. The solution for most users is to login using the X backend.

Regards


UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn

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#3 2017-01-03 00:29:35

sarcokiller
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Re: Libreoffice icons missing [Gnome]

c00ter wrote:

Hello @sarcokiller and welcome to Arch Linux.

You do not state what your 2 hour search entailed. Since you have a fresh Arch and GNOME DE, are you aware that GNOME 3.22 now defaults to the Wayland backend rather than X? This may cause a wide variety of problems, including such as yours. The solution for most users is to login using the X backend.

Regards

Thanks for the welcome and for the reply.

My 2 hours research were about gnome that seems to have some issues with libre office suite. I've found some users reports bugs on libre office and icons but seems to be a pretty old problem. Now I really didn't know about this backend news, I'm doing some research about how to login using X backend and I will EDIT this post if I'll find a solution. In the meanwhile if someone can help me explaining how to try this I will appreciate a lot the help.

EDIT: (I have installed all xorg packages needed before gnome following a tutorial old by 3 months)

EDIT 2: After a reboot all works... I didn't touch anything... That's really funny... Thanks a lot again for your reply.

EDIT 3: After another reboot the icons error comes again... sad

Any help?

Last edited by sarcokiller (2017-01-03 01:54:46)

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#4 2017-01-03 03:22:56

c00ter
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Re: Libreoffice icons missing [Gnome]

If you are using a login manager (GDM, LightDM...) there should be a selection at login. In GDM it is a gear icon that provides a drop-down choice of GNOME or GNOME w/Wayland. The standard GNOME choice uses Xorg. Sorry I cannot be more specific--I tend to be more Plasma-centric nowadays.

Hopefully this will help.

Regards

Last edited by c00ter (2017-01-03 03:25:01)


UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn

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#5 2017-01-03 10:24:35

sarcokiller
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Re: Libreoffice icons missing [Gnome]

c00ter wrote:

If you are using a login manager (GDM, LightDM...) there should be a selection at login. In GDM it is a gear icon that provides a drop-down choice of GNOME or GNOME w/Wayland. The standard GNOME choice uses Xorg. Sorry I cannot be more specific--I tend to be more Plasma-centric nowadays.

Hopefully this will help.

Regards


Thanks a lot I did it and seems to be ok. However i noticed that sometimes went well event without xorg... Can i ask to you if is better using xorg or the newest wayland?

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#6 2017-01-03 17:37:14

c00ter
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From: Alaskan in Washington State
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Re: Libreoffice icons missing [Gnome]

Xorg is tried and true, but old like me. Wayland is the ugh future.

Regards


UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn

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