Things look a little different when using gnome fallback session: 1. For applications that have shortcuts in /usr/share/applications drag'n'dropping creates a *copy* of the launcher on the desktop. The copy has a default access rights of 755 which allow execution. 2. For libreoffice-startcenter.desktop a symbolic link is created on the desktop instead (probably because /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop is a symbolic link itself).
So as a workaround the user may either: 1. sudo chmod +x /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop, or 2. cp /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop ~/Desktop A proper solution could consist of substituting the /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop symlink with a copy (similarly like it already happens for the individual libreoffice apps - writer, calc etc.). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1386170 Title: Libreoffice startup center shorcut broken Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This seems to be related with https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1200277 that was already fixed, but the libreoffice startup center shortcut remains broken. You can fix it by adding execution rights to /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/startcenter.desktop. Please include the fix in https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa for Precise 12.04. This was reproduced under Libreoffice 4.3 for Precise using this ppa https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa Thanks in advance To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1386170/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
