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Asked: 2016-04-30 14:50:24 +0800 CST

After upgrade, LibreOffice uses wrong colors

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After upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04, I have a number of issues with LibreOffice. See this screenshot:

illustration of LibreOffice problems

Regarding the circled numbers on the screenshot:

  1. Some interface elements, such as these tabs, the font color is nearly invisible.

  2. The icons are difficult to see against the dark background. The default icons were much worse, but changing to Tango icons improved, but didn't fix, the problem.

  3. The automatic font color is worse than before. See number 4.

  4. Text using the automatic font color appears maroon. Previously, it was nearly black, which caused its own issues. This, though, is just ridiculous.

I'm using the default Ambiance theme. How can I fix these issues?

Edit

A bug report contains a solution for issue 1: Launch LibreOffice as follows, possibly via a wrapper script:

SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk soffice

This does not solve the other issues I pointed out.

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3 Answers

  1. Trying to fix a similar problem with Libreoffice 5.0.3 in my Ubuntu 16.04 install I ran across this post:

    The solution was to uninstall libreoffice-gtk. When I uninstalled libreoffice-gtk apt-get removed libreoffice-gnome as well. After the packages were removed I exited libreoffice-calc and restarted it, came back with the default icon/color layout. 

    (20:21:41)--> apt-get purge libreoffice-gtk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libreoffice-gnome* libreoffice-gtk*
<snip>
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
(Reading database ... lots of files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libreoffice-gnome (1:5.0.3~rc2-0ubuntu1~vivid2) ...
Removing libreoffice-gtk (1:5.0.3~rc2-0ubuntu1~vivid2) ...
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  2. Best Answer

    These issues can be related to LibreOffice issues with gtk3. You can end up with screens that look like this:

    screenshot

    Or this

    screenshot

    You can fix this by using gtk2 with LibreOffice. To force LibreOffice to use gtk2 instead of gtk3 uninstall the libreoffice-gtk3 package.

    sudo apt-get purge libreoffice-gtk3

    This worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04.4 with LibreOffice version: 5.1.6.2

    NOTE: This is not the same as one of the other answers. The other answer instructs you to purge the libreoffice-gtk package. This answer instructs you to purge the libreoffice-gtk3 package.

    This answer was originally found on Ubuntu Forums on this thread marked [SOLVED] Color scheme with LibreOffice 5.1.0.3.

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  3. I've solved this by doing the following:

    sudo apt-get purge libreoffice-gtk* libreoffice-gnome

sudo apt install libreoffice-gnome

    Maybe the reason in libreoffice-style-elementary package

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