Libre Office 7: How to show icons in menus.

[cosmiclaser]

If you don't see any icons in LibreOffice menus, here's a solution.
This solution only works from version 7.0.3 and above. So also for 7.0.4, etc.

First, in LibreOffice go to the Tools menu than choose Options.

Then click the section LibreOffice:Advanced, click the Open Expert Configuration button:

In the Expert Configuration dialog, enter "iconsinmenu" in the search field and click Search.

Then, set the following:
- ShowIconsInMenues: true
- IsSystemIconsInMenus: false

Finally, restart LibreOffice.

Result:

[mshmm]

Thank you for this Great to have menu icons back in LibreOffice GTK.

[antikythera]

Nice tip, it works for 6.1 and 6.4 too (just tried it in both those builds and it does work in Cinnamon on LMDE4)

[JerryF]

Hmmm...

Didn't work on mine.

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libreoffice --version
LibreOffice 6.4.6.2 40(Build:2)

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inxi -Sxz
System:    Kernel: 5.4.0-64-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa 
           base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 

[usn]

Saved my life

LibreOffice 6.4.7.2
Cinnamon 20.2

Why we have always do change or remove things that people used to stickily ?

[BenTrabetere]

Why we have always do change or remove things that people used to stickily ?

If you are wondering why the menu icons were removed, I am almost positive it was because the Gnome UI Designers decided to not show icons in menus. It affects every GTK-based DE.

Here is a discussion about it. https://discourse.gnome.org/t/principle ... menus/4803

[usn]

This is why it shows by default in KDE, also under Xfce Mint 19.3.

Gnome have to go a little bit slow in their path of soberfication and applefication. Icons menu are very intuitive and helpful for lot of users, it's very frustrating to not see them any more. I hope Cinnamon wouldn't follow them blindly..