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sonnenschein

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Registered: 2015-01-12

Posts: 20

libreoffice-fresh = black gui, libreoffice-still = normal [SOLVED]

Hi,

my libreoffice-fresh suddenly became black. The paper and its background is still white, everything at the toolbars is black. I made no changes or updates right before the issue came up. Already reinstalled it – still black. Themes in settings are at "standard".
Right now I installed libreoffice-still and its back to normal.

Already tried to google it, but it seems to be not a common bug.
Anyone has the same problem?

Last edited by sonnenschein (2015-02-22 07:58:26)

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Wu

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Registered: 2009-12-27

Posts: 82

Re: libreoffice-fresh = black gui, libreoffice-still = normal [SOLVED]

Are you by any chance using a dark color scheme (in your DE) and/or have

Tools -> Options -> Accessibility -> Automatically detect high-contrat mode...

enabled in Libreoffice options?

sonnenschein

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Registered: 2015-01-12

Posts: 20

Re: libreoffice-fresh = black gui, libreoffice-still = normal [SOLVED]

Unfortunately it doesn't matter if its checked or not.

My theme is a white/gray one. Doesn't changed it when this dark GUI appears.

Last edited by sonnenschein (2015-02-21 11:58:11)

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Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,372

Re: libreoffice-fresh = black gui, libreoffice-still = normal [SOLVED]

Try running libre with a standard light theme:

GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/MurrinaCrystal/gtk-2.0/gtkrc libreoffice

for example (you can replace MurrinaCrystal with a different theme). See if that makes aa difference.

To be honest, after countless problems with LO and my dark theme, I always run LO with a light theme, now.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: libreoffice-fresh = black gui, libreoffice-still = normal [SOLVED]

I get this as well on oxygen-gtk in KDE, somewhat alleviated by switching to KDE4 integration, but I'd rather get gtk back working

sonnenschein

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Registered: 2015-01-12

Posts: 20

Re: libreoffice-fresh = black gui, libreoffice-still = normal [SOLVED]

This

GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/MurrinaCrystal/gtk-2.0/gtkrc libreoffice

seemed to work.
At the same time I set up the iew options to a false and back to normal. Then restart and boom - like new.

Thanks

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