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Libreoffice writer is missing its icon. Where should I put a replacement?

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 4048 / 3 Years ago, tue, september 28, 2021, 2:58:37

The other libreoffice programs all have their icons in place but I get the 'blank icon' icon in unity's launcher. Any idea of the directory I should place a replacement icon or how I can get it back? I've tried:

sudo apt-get purge libreoffice* && sudo apt-get install libreoffice-writer

but it still shows up blank.

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answered 3 Years ago rhaeams · Accepted Answer

It seems like the launcher icons are tied to a *.desktop file and it seems like there are *.desktop files in /usr/share/applications and in ~/.local/share/applications. I assume the .local version is used if it exists. So I deleted (renamed really) the libreoffice-writer.desktop file in my .local folder and rebooted. All is working again.