On Tuesday 24 March 2026 05:10:01 Philippe Mavridis via tde-users wrote:
Hello,
AFAIK LibreOffice does not respect TDE font settings. You have to check which toolkit is used (in Help > About) -it may be Qt or GTK (or rarely generic)- and configure the relevant font options with the relevant tools (e.g. lxappearance for GTK and Qt[5|6]ct for Qt.
Regards, Philippe
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I am using a X1 Thinkpad with 14 inch screen, LO installed in Ubuntu 24.04 or LO 25 installed directly from the libreoffice website faces the same problems.
The fonts in the menu entries and the formula bar for scalc are very small!
I cannot find a way to enhance these fonts.
When I try out the TDE Settings in Appearance-->Fonts
There are a couple of options, general, fixed with, Toolbar Menu Window title Taskbar and Desktop,
I set all to 12 but the LO menu fonts are still small.
Any ideas what to do and who is the culprit here.
Regards
Uwe Brauer
Long ago I tried to make peace with Libre Office, and it cannot be done. Maybe somebody out there knows how to get inside LO to change the interface, but I spent a couple years searching for such a solution.
Libre Office, as far as I am concerned, is practically useless. Not only is the interface unreadable, but also it is very slow, like pouring molasses on a cold day. It sometimes would take me 5-10 minutes just for it to appear on screen when I changed from one screen to another.
In the end, I went back to Open Office, which works better for me in every way, is faster, and also accepts TDE colors and fonts. The menu entries are not so much enlarged, but because OO accepts my TDE color scheme, I can make the GUI more legible.
To find the download links for the most recent OO takes a bit of searching, but it's worth the trouble. It is a little tricky, too, to get OO installed nowadays. Once installed, however, it works just fine, and is also very fast compared to LO.
Bill