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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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!
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 🤭
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.
You can apply the theme in settings I think.
This video of optimising the layout of libreoffice should be helpful;
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-plasmalibreoffice-qt5libreoffice-style-breeze. Take a look at this forum thread for more info, https://discuss.kde.org/t/libreoffice-does-not-honour-kde-theme/3347Partially 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!
I guess this may be the problem
Poor flatpak app has no way to see the themes 🥺
I think that other person was answering in good faith. They were trying to help, they just misunderstood what was being asked.
Happy Monday indeed.
Use another theme, look for them in Tools->Preferences
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.
if you don’t find another solution, i have libreoffice installed via flatpak and this issue does not exist
Because the theme doesn’t get applied at all or why?
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.
At least you have the menu bar.
Is it a flatpak installation or repo installation?
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
Define normal? More like Ms Office? (Under tools if im not mistaken, you can select user interface and there you have the tabbed one)
I mean the boxes for font and paragraph style are all dark when they should be light. I think it’s got to do with the system theme, I just wish I could selectively choose the theme for each application so dark mode doesn’t mess things up like this.
By default I have the same issue using KDE and a dark theme, what I do is set a specific theme inside LibreOffice. Another thing you can look for is setting another GTK theme or color scheme inside Customization on Plasma Settings
Try switching to a tabbed layout.
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.
