OpenOffice wiki page change suggestion

pauligrinder · 2010-05-20 13:23:32

Hello,

I've been fighting to get openoffice (-base) to show colors properly. I use a dark gtk-theme, which caused openoffice to go black too.

First, I changed all the colors to propper ones in Options->Appearance, and this seemed to work. I was using Oo-writer. Then, I launched Impress... What I got was black text on a black background! I tried the openoffice dark fix from AUR, and it did nothing, except made scrollbars really ugly, the I tried xport SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen and the other suggestions I found, no results there either...

Then I googled and googled and googled. From some random forum, I finally found my answer: Options->Accesibility-> Automatically detect high contrast mode of operating system. <- Turn that off. Then the Appearance settings actually work Even Impress and Calc now show up with black text on white background. The icons can also be changed now, since it doesn't force high contrast icons anymore.

I'm suggesting you guys should add this to the Oo-page in the Arch Wiki, since the fixes presented there do not work (anymore?).

Thanks for your time, and I hope this'll be helpfull to someone.

Allan · 2010-05-20 13:28:22

It is a wiki. Feel free to edit it...

kazuo · 2010-05-20 13:28:31

pauligrinder wrote:

I'm suggesting you guys should add this to the Oo-page in the Arch Wiki, since the fixes presented there do not work (anymore?).

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wiki wrote:

wiki (plural wikis)
1. A collaborative website which can be directly edited using only a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.

So go there and do your work, edit the wiki and add the fixes.

karol · 2010-05-20 13:40:42

I don't even use OpenOffice so it's hard for people like me to keep the wiki up to date. That's why users are encouraged to participate - it's really fast and easy.

pauligrinder · 2010-05-20 23:11:57

ahh, sorry, I didn't realise anyone could edit it
Ok, done

Last edited by pauligrinder (2010-05-20 23:31:35)

JackH79 · 2010-05-21 00:30:30

Nice find, mate. Thanks

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