I know, I know ... Use qt5ct. And I'm the one who complains when others bring up this same problem under different headings:
GTK 3 TQt Engine Styles Using Tqt theme/color scheme in Qt5 applications
The problem is not with display of text, etc.; in fact, it would seem that the issue with page metrics differing between Open Office and Libre Office has been resolved, or is not so obvious. So it may be that I can make it work, at least for the present.
What I want is to change the GUI of Libre Office to use my TDE system colors and fonts. I could do it with Open Office, but not with Libre Office, which appears to use Gnome defaults. I've tried to go into Trinity Control Center, but changing the settings does nothing to Libre Office.
This isn't just a cosmetic annoyance (although it *is* ugly), but because it's really hard on my old eyes to stare for hours on end at a white background with tiny black text. It only takes a few minutes and my eyes start to give me problems, and I can't continue working.
It seems that there must be a way to force Libre Office to use my TDE colors, or at least to use a dark theme or high-contrast mode. I tried qt5ct, and nothing happens. I thought maybe I could do it with css or something like that.
Any help or suggestions?
Bill
On Saturday 19 February 2022 11:09:41 am William Morder via tde-users wrote:
It seems that there must be a way to force Libre Office to use my TDE colors, or at least to use a dark theme or high-contrast mode. I tried qt5ct, and nothing happens. I thought maybe I could do it with css or something like that.
I've never used these (I know, how boring...)
To use Firefox themes:
LO > [Menu]-Tools > Options -- LibreOffice > Personalization
To do it all yourself:
LO > [Menu]-Tools > Options -- LibreOffice > Application Colors
The naming doesn’t seem very intuitive, so you’ll probably have to whack-a-mole a bunch...
HTH, Michael
On Saturday 19 February 2022 09:32:24 Michael wrote:
On Saturday 19 February 2022 11:09:41 am William Morder via tde-users wrote:
It seems that there must be a way to force Libre Office to use my TDE colors, or at least to use a dark theme or high-contrast mode. I tried qt5ct, and nothing happens. I thought maybe I could do it with css or something like that.
I've never used these (I know, how boring...)
To use Firefox themes:
LO > [Menu]-Tools > Options -- LibreOffice > Personalization
To do it all yourself:
LO > [Menu]-Tools > Options -- LibreOffice > Application Colors
The naming doesn’t seem very intuitive, so you’ll probably have to whack-a-mole a bunch...
HTH, Michael
Thanks, but that doesn't change the colors in the GUI. I mean the borders, the dialog pages, etc. My colors and fonts for actual documents (inside the application) are just fine. I want the GUI to use my TDE colors, or at least high-contrast, dark theme, light fonts on dark background.
Bill
Anno domini 2022 Sat, 19 Feb 09:43:10 -0800 William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
On Saturday 19 February 2022 09:32:24 Michael wrote:
On Saturday 19 February 2022 11:09:41 am William Morder via tde-users wrote:
It seems that there must be a way to force Libre Office to use my TDE colors, or at least to use a dark theme or high-contrast mode. I tried qt5ct, and nothing happens. I thought maybe I could do it with css or something like that.
I've never used these (I know, how boring...)
To use Firefox themes:
LO > [Menu]-Tools > Options -- LibreOffice > Personalization
To do it all yourself:
LO > [Menu]-Tools > Options -- LibreOffice > Application Colors
The naming doesn’t seem very intuitive, so you’ll probably have to whack-a-mole a bunch...
HTH, Michael
Thanks, but that doesn't change the colors in the GUI. I mean the borders, the dialog pages, etc. My colors and fonts for actual documents (inside the application) are just fine. I want the GUI to use my TDE colors, or at least high-contrast, dark theme, light fonts on dark background.
You'll need to transfer your TDE color settings to GNOME theme. E.g. get started with /usr/share/themes/BlackMATE/gtk-3.0/gtk-main.css and modify it to your needs. I have to admit I gave up on this some time ago - GTK3 is just a PITA.
Nik
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On Saturday 19 February 2022 10:02:03 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2022 Sat, 19 Feb 09:43:10 -0800
William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
On Saturday 19 February 2022 09:32:24 Michael wrote:
On Saturday 19 February 2022 11:09:41 am William Morder via tde-users
wrote:
It seems that there must be a way to force Libre Office to use my TDE colors, or at least to use a dark theme or high-contrast mode. I tried qt5ct, and nothing happens. I thought maybe I could do it with css or something like that.
I've never used these (I know, how boring...)
To use Firefox themes:
LO > [Menu]-Tools > Options -- LibreOffice > Personalization
To do it all yourself:
LO > [Menu]-Tools > Options -- LibreOffice > Application Colors
The naming doesn’t seem very intuitive, so you’ll probably have to whack-a-mole a bunch...
HTH, Michael
Thanks, but that doesn't change the colors in the GUI. I mean the borders, the dialog pages, etc. My colors and fonts for actual documents (inside the application) are just fine. I want the GUI to use my TDE colors, or at least high-contrast, dark theme, light fonts on dark background.
You'll need to transfer your TDE color settings to GNOME theme. E.g. get started with /usr/share/themes/BlackMATE/gtk-3.0/gtk-main.css and modify it to your needs. I have to admit I gave up on this some time ago - GTK3 is just a PITA.
Nik
Bill
There's another reason why I want to stick with Open Office; except, y'know, it stopped working.
At least this gives me some hope to modify it with css.
Also, I suspect that this is somehow related to the issue that causes Open Office not to work. When I reinstalled my OS, there were a lot of gtk2 and gtk3 things that I never noticed before. They only get noticed when there's a problem.
Bill
Anno domini 2022 Sat, 19 Feb 10:16:33 -0800 William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
On Saturday 19 February 2022 10:02:03 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2022 Sat, 19 Feb 09:43:10 -0800
William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
On Saturday 19 February 2022 09:32:24 Michael wrote:
On Saturday 19 February 2022 11:09:41 am William Morder via tde-users
wrote:
It seems that there must be a way to force Libre Office to use my TDE colors, or at least to use a dark theme or high-contrast mode. I tried qt5ct, and nothing happens. I thought maybe I could do it with css or something like that.
I've never used these (I know, how boring...)
To use Firefox themes:
LO > [Menu]-Tools > Options -- LibreOffice > Personalization
To do it all yourself:
LO > [Menu]-Tools > Options -- LibreOffice > Application Colors
The naming doesn’t seem very intuitive, so you’ll probably have to whack-a-mole a bunch...
HTH, Michael
Thanks, but that doesn't change the colors in the GUI. I mean the borders, the dialog pages, etc. My colors and fonts for actual documents (inside the application) are just fine. I want the GUI to use my TDE colors, or at least high-contrast, dark theme, light fonts on dark background.
You'll need to transfer your TDE color settings to GNOME theme. E.g. get started with /usr/share/themes/BlackMATE/gtk-3.0/gtk-main.css and modify it to your needs. I have to admit I gave up on this some time ago - GTK3 is just a PITA.
Nik
Bill
There's another reason why I want to stick with Open Office; except, y'know, it stopped working.
At least this gives me some hope to modify it with css.
Also, I suspect that this is somehow related to the issue that causes Open Office not to work. When I reinstalled my OS, there were a lot of gtk2 and gtk3 things that I never noticed before. They only get noticed when there's a problem.
Just to mention: "kgtk-qt3-trinity" does not work with GKT3 applications on daedalus, they kind of start but just don't open any window. Same thing with "apulse" - on some machines it works, on others firefox crashes.
Nik
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