File icon missing in manjaro & Fedora

[kghosh22]

In Debian, each file created by libreoffice has a proper icon. But when I save a file created by libreoffice in Manjaro and Fedora, it does not have an icon, it shows the top page as the icon. Why is that? I can provide screenshots to illustrate.

Under Debian installation, there are many files in /opt/libreoffice, but there is nothing in /opt/ in Manjaro or Fedora.

Yesterday I tried Libreoffice in Neon KDE. Saving a file as .odt shows a blank icon. The same file saves as .docx in the same directory shows a proper icon. This happens with XFCE in Manjaro and Fedora also, but not on Debian. How to fix this?

I used distro package management for installing LO. Clicking on the blank icon produces the desired results, that is, LO opens properly, and I am able to work. Only the icon is blank.

[ajlittoz]

Then the extension vs. application association is correct. It might be a desktop management issue (maybe a stale cache). Try F5 while displaying a directory contents (though I doubt this is enough to force icon refresh).

The icon database may have been damaged. Try right-clicking the blank icon and Properties. Press the File type options button (or equivalent). You can now force a specific icon for this file type.

[erAck]

Installation under /opt/libreoffice indicates it’s not a distro package installation but a 3rd party installation, maybe a TDF build downloaded from libreoffice.org or some other source.

[ajlittoz]

Some desktop managers (notably KDE and GNOME) offer the possibility to show file contents instead of an icon. Check the display options.

Where applications are installed is distribution-dependent. This is why it is highly recommended to install through the distro package management utility and to not mix package sources. On my Fedora machine, LO lies mainly in /usr/lib64/libreoffice with some utilities/libraries in other directories.

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