I have custom blank file templates made for file formats I use often, but after switching from MATE to LXQt these blank desktop entries claiming to be for LibreOffice showed up in the “Create New” dialog.
IDK how to get rid of these as they aren’t in my .Templates folder. Anyone got an idea what’s causing this?
Maybe coming from the .desktop itself?
Try this:
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
cp /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-calc.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/.
Then edit ~/.local/share/applications/libreoffice-calc.desktop and remove this part at the bottom.
Actions=NewDocument;
[Desktop Action NewDocument]
Name=New Spreadsheet
Name[en]=New Spreadsheet
Icon=document-new
Exec=libreoffice --calc
See if that removes either or both of the LibreOffice Calc options from the menu.
I am not sure if that will require logging out or not to take affect.
If it doesn’t help, you can simply delete ~/.local/share/applications/libreoffice-calc.desktop.
Unfortunately this had no effect. My issue is with the create new file dialog, not the application menu.
I believe that is what that snippet does, adds the item to the New File menu.
This is the normal/expected behavior.
What are you referring to? There are files in the folder. Whatever is in that folder is parsed and presented as a Create New (document type) item.
I think you are confusing the GUI representation of those files in the File Manager, with the actual files.
Please post objective info, to help solve the misunderstanding. For example:
ls -l ~/Templates
Was in a hurry when I typed that and I admit I could have phrased it better. What I’m saying is that I made blank Blender, Krita, and LibreOffice files and put them in ~/.Templates so I could easily make new files on the fly. After switching to LXQt, new templates were added to the Create New right-click menu that don’t come from files in this directory. These are .desktop files and not blank .ods, .kra, etc… I didn’t manually create these and I don’t know what could have created these and the perfectionist in me wants them gone.
[josh@Mercury ~]$ ls -l ~/.Templates
total 1964
-rw-r--r-- 1 josh josh 953960 Nov 22 17:45 'Blender Project (2D).blend'
-rw-r--r-- 1 josh josh 829292 Nov 22 17:44 'Blender Project (3D).blend'
-rw-r--r-- 1 josh josh 187678 Nov 22 17:43 'Krita Document.kra'
-rw-r--r-- 1 josh josh 6964 Nov 22 17:46 'LibreOffice Calc Spreadsheet.ods'
-rw-r--r-- 1 josh josh 15074 Nov 22 17:47 'LibreOffice Impress Presentation.odp'
-rwxr-xr-x 1 josh josh 8272 Nov 22 17:48 'LibreOffice Writer Text Document.odt'
Note: directory is ~/.Templates and not ~/Templates. ~/Templates was the default and I hid it as I didn’t wish to see it when using the directory menu in the LXQt panel.
libreoffice-fresh atleast does use /usr/share/templates for the desktop files & /usr/share/templates/.source
funny is if you copy the templates folder too ~/.local/share you get the double 
in libreoffice you can create templates and make them default. if you have a writer document, and set it in Libreoffice and set it as default, wil it use that document as standard, as blender i dont know
OK. Now we have enough info to troubleshoot.
Let me list what we know, and after you read this man page, and check more things, you can find your way and give some feedback, if you think it is a bug somewhere:
xdg-user-dirs-update package installed, it will autostart by-default and create standard user data folders in $HOME/. Check:pacman -Qs xdg-user-dirs && systemctl status --user xdg-user-dirs-update.service
$XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR/ to find document templates and create “Create New (Document type)” menu entries. In your case, ~/.Templates is not one of them. Confirm it by renaming this folder..desktop files), and add them to the menu. Check with:ls -1 /usr/share/templates
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/libreoffice/4/user/template to store user defined templates, and does not create any file in $XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR/. It then creates an option inside the application, when creating a new document (of the relevant template type).~/.Templates).I think these are enough to solve the mystery 
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Let’s see what you can get 
That was it. Something during the LXQt install must have created them as they weren’t present when I used MATE. I ran sudo rm * in /usr/share/templates and afterward sudo mv ~/.Templates/* /usr/share/templates to ensure this wouldn’t happen again. Thanks for the help man.
For libreoffice is just for text you can add a template and make it start… then you dont need remove the template folder it goes back with an update…nut you can add a template and make one default. Its in libreoffce start menu
https://help.libreoffice.org/6.2/en-US/text/swriter/guide/template_default.html
If you point out the defaults it should set that standard on right click on desktop
I think you misunderstood.
Everything under /usr/ is installed by pacman/packages. You should never delete/edit files in /usr/.
Even if you do, they will be recreated with any relevant package update, or there will be a conflict error in pacman update process. You may add files with different filenames than existing ones, although there are usually other paths that you can use for this (/etc/, or $HOME), depending on the task.
This is a fair warning. Remember it when you face any issues like above-mentioned.
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