On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 10:21:38 -0800 Girvin Herr <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can confirm Paul's solution. I use Slackware Linux and xfce4 for > my desktop. xfce provides a similar popup when the .desktop file is > not +x. I routinely change the *.desktop files to +x to quiet the > xfce complaints. > > IMHO, This is not exactly a LO problem. Sure, they could ship the > distro with all .desktop files +x but that is not the proper > solution, nor is it LO's responsibility. The proper solution is to > get the packager to make the change, or do it yourself as a part of > system configuration. > > As for changing the .desktop properties, such as the text or icon, > that information is embedded into the .desktop file, which, as you > discovered, is owned by root and cannot be changed without being > root. I would suggest making a user-editable version by changing the > symlink to the .desktop file in your ~/Desktop directory to a copy of > the .desktop file itself. Just find the desktop file and copy it > into your ~/Desktop directory. Doing the copy should change the > permissions to your user permissions. If not, then you may have to > be root to change them. When you have a user version, then you can > change the .desktop properties, including its filename which may be > used as the desktop icon text. Here, I am assuming your desktop > abides by the opendesktop standards, which include the ~/Desktop > directory. xfce does and so does kde. If not, you may have to find > out where your desktop places the .desktop files displayed on the > desktop. > > HTH. > > Girvin Herr well Girvan, I'm a slob and have a working fix, so notwithstanding the logic of your suggestions, with which I agree, I think I'll park this advice for another upgrade. I'll send along a note to the packager as you suggest though. Thanks! D > > > > On 02/03/2017 06:38 AM, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: > > Try changing the Icon properties set to allow execute. > > > > This may help. > > > > > > On 2/2/2017 7:36 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > >> Minor ones, the download and install were fine and that fixed my > >> lack of spell-checking that I was complaining of here a while back. > >> > >> I'm using Linux Mint 18. The new icons for version 5.3 showed up > >> in the start menu and they work. My boot process ends at a desktop > >> so I like to have a LO Writer icon on the desktop so I can start > >> there if I want. I popped up the start menu, went into "office" > >> then with the mouse over the LO Writer icon, dragged it to the > >> desktop, leaving me with a desktop icon as launcher. Clicking on > >> the desktop icon gives a dialog box with a message, "untrusted > >> application launcher" and "The application launcher > >> 'libre-office5-3writer.desktop' has not been marked as trusted. If > >> you do not know the source of this file, launching it may be > >> unsafe." Below are two buttons, "Launch anyway" and "Cancel" I > >> always launch and it works fine. Still it would be nice to make it > >> trusted. > >> > >> Also the icon has a little lock emblem in the top right corner. > >> Ordinarily I expect to see that when I'm running as a user and > >> trying to launch a program owned by root. And finally I'd like to > >> be able to change the icon image and label text but an attempt to > >> rename through the icon properties dialogue box leaves me with a > >> message box telling me the item could not be renamed and 'unable > >> to rename desktop file.' > >> > >> All small stuff the upgrade is still very worthwhile. > >> TIA > >> > >> Dave > >> > >> > > > > > > -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not conceived in terms of such a war, and offer no simple answers to simplistic questions. ----- Ursula Le Guin -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
