How Do I Get LibreOffice Icons To Appear In The KDE Plasma 5 Task Manager?

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#1

How can I fix the LibreOffice icons not appearing in the KDE Plasma 5 Task Manager in the main panel?

LibreOffice Version: 6.2.2.2;
Build ID: 2b840030fec2aae0fd2658d8d4f9548af4e3518d
KDE Plasma: 5.15.3
Kernel: 5.0.4
Workspace Theme: Oxygen
Application WIdget Style: qtcurve
Window Decorations: OS X
Icon Set: Oxygen

No LibreOffice icons appear in the Task Manager on the default panel. Rather, a generic X-application icon represents the running component (such as Writer, Calc, Impress, etc.).

When a component of LibreOffice is starting up, the icon for that component appears for a ½ second or so, but then it is replaced with the generic X-application icon

#2

What is your distro? Here, Fedora 29 OK, Fed 28 OK. (Edit your question doin’t use an answer)

#3

@ajlittoz I think it is not a matter of the distro but the LO repository and the packages installed. On my openSUSE Leap 15.0 system, I do use RPM packages from libreoffice.org and observe the native X symbol as mentioned in the post. On a Fedora 29 system, where I installed from Fedora repository using dnf install libreoffice I do see the LibreOffice symbols in the task bar.

#4

I have — before clean installing PCLinuxOS 2019 — gone through the trouble of uninstalling LibreOffice using Synaptic, then downloaded the LibreOffice RPMs from Download LibreOffice | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft, unpacked the RPMs, moved the libobasis6.2-en-US-help-6.2.0.3-3.x86_64.rpm into the same directory as the rest of the RPMs, and then run # rpm -Uvih *rpm

I still had the same problem of LibreOffice icons not displaying in the Task Manager when one of the component programs of LibreOffice was running. One of the reasons I did the clean install was because I had hoped that there was some sort of configuration glitch on my system that would be fixed with a clean install. But NOPE. That didn’t work.

#5

Just installed RPM packages from libreoffice.org (6.2.2) on Fedora 29 and this verifies the observation from the post (at least for my system).

#6

Hello Keltonix,

my solution is to remove the .cache directory in $HOME directory: rm -r ~/.cache, to logout from the KDE session and to login again.

Hope this also works for you.

#7

Happily, my fave distro just updated KDE Plasma to 5.15.4. And don’t you know that this particular update fixed the LibreOffice icon snafu — for now.

#8

2019-07-09; 18:03 U.S. Eastern Time
I am Keltonix. I just got an email notification about this thread having new input. I’m thankful to all who commented and/or answered.

I’m now running KDE Plasma 5.16.2-3 and LibreOffice 6.2-6.2.5.2-2. All the icons are as they should be. But, next time I run into this problem (and I’m sure that there will be a next time), I’ll be sure to remember to clear ~/.cache and logout/login.

#9

Same problem in KDE plasma 5.16 - tried with latte dock plasmoid as well as icons only task manager. Same thing happens in deepin as well as gnome on wayland but not on X.

#10

Please do not post as an answer, if you actually don’t provide a solution to OPs original question. Use “add a comment” function instead. Thanks in advance …

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