On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 11:49 (-0700), William Morder via tde-users wrote:
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.
Have you tried starting soffice from the command line like this:
GDK_DPI_SCALE=2 soffice
On my system that makes the fonts ludicrously big. But you might be able to fine-tune the number (you can use decimal fractions like 1.2 or 1.7) and get something that works for you.
Long ago I tried to make peace with Libre Office, and it cannot be done.
Depending on what you mean by "make peace", that may not really be true.
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.
I am not a fan of either libre office or open office, so I don't use either except under extreme duress. But just out of curiosity, what is it about the interface you don't like? The icons? The fonts? The way the menus are arranged? Something else?
Libre Office, as far as I am concerned, is practically useless. Not only is the interface unreadable,
That's just plain not a valid complaint about libre office, that is a complaint about your config/system. The interface is very readable on my system, and I don't think there is anything magic about my system.
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.
One of the reasons I don't like Libre office is because it is slow, I agree with you there.
I use gnumeric for spreadsheets, and it is way, way, way faster.
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.
Unfortunately there are a lot of thing in OO that need updating. I understand that it has considerably less capability with included images than LO. But if its image inclusion ability is all you need, I guess that wouldn't be an issue for you.
Cheers. Jim