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How do I make this look more normal? (pawb.social)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Cornflake@pawb.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 1 month ago (1 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!

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I guess this may be the problem

Poor flatpak app has no way to see the themes 🥺

[–] fnafdesktopfan111@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] pollopolis@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 month 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.

[–] vort3@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

At least you have the menu bar.

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do come back and link it when you can!

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

thanks for the reminder! don't want another potential denvercoder9 situation

[–] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 month ago

Is it a flatpak installation or repo installation?

[–] Tundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

https://youtu.be/x44bda1dz84

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Define normal? More like Ms Office? (Under tools if im not mistaken, you can select user interface and there you have the tabbed one)

[–] Cornflake@pawb.social 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pollopolis@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Try switching to a tabbed layout.

[–] inutt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month 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.