On Saturday 05 March 2022 11:54:48 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Until I went poking around, I didn't know about "VCL", which apparently is the interface between LibreOffice and whatever widget library it happens to be using. So it's a plausible source of your woes.
But I suspected there was some way like this. Mine says "UI render: default: VCL: x11.
How to change x11 to gtk3, then?
There's an environment variable, SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN. You want SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 . (You can also try =qt5 , but I don't know what results you'll get, as it seems to have problems on some non-KDE5 platforms.) Currently I think you may have =generic .
I don't have it set, but I also, in typical Gentoo fashion, compiled my own copy of LibreOffice with only some widget sets enabled.
You might need "libreoffice-gtk3". SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 may work on LO6, but not on LO7.
E. Liddell
Yes! I dood it!
Dig the new look. I also got some other dark themes, so now I can do a little juggling to see what is the best combination.
Like yourself, though ... I'm not quite sure just how it happened. I will try to retrace my steps for myself and the possible benefit of others.
* I was messing with lxappearance and qt5ct. Here, under the tab for Appearance, I set Style as gtk2, and also Standard dialogs for GTK2. (That's how it appears on screen.) * Also I unchecked "use TDE colors" in TCC / Appearance & Themes / Colors (but this turned everything to XFCE or some other defaults, i.e., white background and black text, and stopped using my cursor theme. Then I rechecked that box, "use TDE colors": I don't have a clue if that's significant at all. * I changed the theme to Adwaita (somewhere or other); but now I can't find where I did it. Also I don't know if this means anything.
There were a couple other variants (but *all* of them were dark themes) that I went through, but this is what I am stuck on at the moment, because, you know, YIPPEEEEEEEE!!!!!
My eyes will last to see for another few days, maybe more.
Thanks everybody! (I'm not sure what anybody actually *did*, but somehow I got it to happen.)
Bill
