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How do I make this look more normal? (pawb.social)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The dark system theme I have set seems to make some applications look funny, with dark boxes where they should be light. Is there any way I can manually set a theme on a per-application basis?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Normally LibreOffice would pick up on your theme automatically, strange why it's like this. Are you using any different versions of LO? Flatpak version or Appimage? Appimage has a lot of issues with theming.

This one's an easy fix though, just go to Tools > Options > View and pick a theme option, that should work. If that doesn't help then try re-installing or using a different version.

Hope this was helpful!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I guess it is flatpak, since it is the most popular way to install stuff in fedora. I guess this is the solution, but there most be a more easy way, for sure

Still these things are the reason I stopped installing flatpaks pretty soon after I started 🤭

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I had this problem, and it was definitely a theme issue.

https://askubuntu.com/a/1372318 may be helpful in setting a theme just for libreoffice, it you're using GTK themes. (Basically, override the GTK_THEME variable in the .desktop file). I haven't tried it myself since I just switched to a different theme.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

You can apply the theme in settings I think.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I had the same problem. It's been a while but I'm fairly certain the problem can be solved by installed the appropriate integration package. Try installing these packages, libreoffice-plasma libreoffice-qt5 libreoffice-style-breeze. Take a look at this forum thread for more info, https://discuss.kde.org/t/libreoffice-does-not-honour-kde-theme/3347

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

This video of optimising the layout of libreoffice should be helpful;

https://youtu.be/x44bda1dz84

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Partially implimented system theme. Comments: oP MuSt wAnT It tO LoOk lIkE MiCrOsOfT!

The only one who so-far realized the theming is the problem suggested a quick fix that will likely leave this issue cropping up again in other applications.

Me: down-votes comments because I WANT there to be a better answer, not because I know one. Happy Monday, people!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I guess this may be the problem

Poor flatpak app has no way to see the themes 🥺

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I think that other person was answering in good faith. They were trying to help, they just misunderstood what was being asked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Happy Monday indeed.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Use another theme, look for them in Tools->Preferences

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

Yes, actually, one of the preinstalled themes is activated. Normally you have to pick the option that says something along the lines of "don't use themes" inside Tools/Preferences/LibreOffice/Application_Colors or something (depends on the language). That would make the desktop theme apply properly over LibreOffice.

You might need to reboot LibreOffice to see the changes take effect.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

if you don't find another solution, i have libreoffice installed via flatpak and this issue does not exist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Because the theme doesn't get applied at all or why?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

I don't know, stuff on the repos can be broken sometimes on some distros, i recall firefox on fedora with the missing codecs, opensuse and their flaky distrobox (or podman?) implementation.

In my experience, repo versions of software is not totally consistent, even worse when compared to flatpak, if a flatpak breaks, it doesnt break on just ubuntu, or fedora, or arch; it breaks everywhere, and gets fixed everywhere too. Credit where credit is due, small utilities generally tend to have better experience when installed natively, like htop, fish, and some other small programs.

Maybe i'm just a dumb software progressive, but flatpak generally is much more reliable for me than native repo versions of software.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

At least you have the menu bar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Is it a flatpak installation or repo installation?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

This is a common but solvable problem. I'm afk so can't link the right pages, but look up the LibreOffice and/or consistent gtk/qt theming entries on Arch Wiki

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I dont know if this could be your issue, however I had some strange big black shadows arround GTK apps. After trying all different possible themes, playing arround with config files, CSS... Nothing helped.

However, on the Archlinux wiki, they mentioned something interesting: The compositor.

While this really depends what DE and what compositor is installed on your distro by default, I got rid off all the strangeness by enabling something in the compositor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Try switching to a tabbed layout.