Linux @lemmy.ml CornflakeDog @pawb.social 1mo ago

How do I make this look more normal?

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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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!
- Happy Monday indeed.
- 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.
  
  Thus, that last line in my comment. My frustration in this case is just sooo much more to do with the issue than with comments.
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
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.
At least you have the menu bar.
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 🤭
  
  Strange though, I've never had issues like this with flatpak.... It might be possible ofc that it is flatpak but I suspect it's the theme itself that's faulty. Thanks for providing a solution btw!
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

Edit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LibreOffice#Theme might be useful. It also links to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and_GTK_applications, which is worth looking into as well
- Do come back and link it when you can!
  
  thanks for the reminder! don't want another potential denvercoder9 situation
Is it a flatpak installation or repo installation?
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.
This video of optimising the layout of libreoffice should be helpful;

https://youtu.be/x44bda1dz84
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.
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.
Try switching to a tabbed layout.
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

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