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gcb

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[SOLVED] Understanding libreoffice SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN

I'm coming from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=296611 which solved my issue.

I could not get `libreoffice --base` to work at all until I set `SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=qt6` on my system.

Why did I need to do that? should i fix that on our packages or is it a bad default detection upstream?

anyone knows more about this?

Last edited by gcb (2024-10-09 14:27:56)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Understanding libreoffice SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LibreOffice#Theme

The theme detection used by libreoffice (and it's predecessor OpenOffice ) has been fragile since forever .
On X the detection tends to work fine the last years, wayland is another story.

https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blo … /README.md and https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blo … ME.vars.md have more info.

What window manager / desktop environmnet / wayland compositor are you using ?

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gcb

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Re: [SOLVED] Understanding libreoffice SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN

Thanks for the links Lone_Wolf! haven't marked as solved before as I never had time to investigate this (as we dropped libreoffice base from consideration)

Those pages gave me all the info I could want on the topic! thanks again.