Color scheme with LibreOffice 5.1.0.3

[cigtoxdoc]

Very recent upgrade of LibreOffice 5.1,0.3 has given some very strange colors for toolbars, drop-down menus. I have not changed anything on my PC's, but now for example, labels on the tabs under FORMAT CHARACTER are in white-colored font on a light-gray background. Main menu area uses white-colored font on dark-gray (black?) background. This has occurred over multiple PCs.

How do I get back to a decent color scheme?

Thank you,

John

[vasa1]

Please provide the output of:
lsb_releases -a
uname -r
dpkg -l libgtk2.0-0 libgtk-3-0
env | grep XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
ls /etc/profile.d/


Also, do you have these files?

08:00 AM ~ $ apt-cache searchlibreoffice | grep gtk
libreoffice-gtk3 - office productivity suite -- GTK+ 3.0 integration
libreoffice-gtk - office productivity suite -- GTK+ integration
08:01 AM ~ $


Thanks!

Edit:while not directly related, do look at http://askubuntu.com/questions/732483/libreoffice-gtk3-and-lubuntu-14-04-lts including muru's comments.

[cigtoxdoc]

Thank you. Information you requested follows:
johnl@johnl-Vostro-3500:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 15.10
Release: 15.10
Codename: wily
johnl@johnl-Vostro-3500:~$ uname -r
4.2.0-30-generic
johnl@johnl-Vostro-3500:~$ dpkg -l libgtk2.0-0 libgtk-3-0
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii libgtk-3-0:amd 3.18.6-1ubun amd64 GTK+ graphical user interface lib
ii libgtk2.0-0:am 2.24.28-1ubu amd64 GTK+ graphical user interface lib
johnl@johnl-Vostro-3500:~$ env | grep XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity
johnl@johnl-Vostro-3500:~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
ubuntu
johnl@johnl-Vostro-3500:~$

Please let me know if you need additional information.

John

[vasa1]

Please also provide the output of

apt-cache search libreoffice | grep gtk

I see
libreoffice-gtk3 - office productivity suite -- GTK+ 3.0 integration
libreoffice-gtk - office productivity suite -- GTK+ integrationDepending on whether you're using gtk2 or gtk3, you will need the respective file.

A screenshot of what you see would also be useful.

Here's something from the Arch wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LibreOffice#Theme):
However, if it looks like it is using Windows 95/98 icons, go to Tools > Options... in the menus (which presents the Options Dialog), then select LibreOffice > Accessibility and uncheck "Automatically detect high-contrast mode of operating system".

If that does not work immediately, you may need to change the icon set that is in use; this is also in the Options Dialog, under LibreOffice > View with two pop-up boxes for "Icon size and style" (the latter pop-up box should be changed to something other than "High-contrast").

[cigtoxdoc]

johnl@johnl-Vostro-3500:~$ apt-cache search libreoffice | grep gtk
libreoffice-gtk - office productivity suite -- GTK+ integration
libgtkspellmm-3.0-0v5 - C++ wrapper library for GtkSpell (shared libraries)
libgtkspellmm-3.0-dev - C++ wrapper library for GtkSpell (development files)
libgtkspellmm-3.0-doc - C++ wrappers for GtkSpell (documentation)
libreoffice-gtk3 - office productivity suite -- GTK+ 3.0 integration
johnl@johnl-Vostro-3500:~$

[vasa1]

Please take a look at the Arch wiki link. I edited my post after you replied, I think.

[cigtoxdoc]

Thank you for your replies. Attached is the screen shot from LibreOffice write showing the Format Character Menu
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[vasa1]

Thank you for your replies. Attached is the screen shot from LibreOffice write showing the Format Character Menu
...
Ouch! That's bad. What gtk theme are you using? Have you tried some other theme? Do all your machines have the same gtk theme?
I too have Version: 5.1.0.3 and the corresponding screen looks like this for me:

[cigtoxdoc]

GTK+ theme is Ambiance. Most critical software application is Evolution 3.18.2. Only decent colors on that come from Ambiance.

[howefield]

Excuse me jumping in, you could try moving or renaming the folder..


~/.config/libreoffice/

If it doesn't work, you can move it back.

[vasa1]

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92776 ???

http://askubuntu.com/questions/738141/libreoffice-5-1-doesnt-integrate-with-unity-in-ubuntu-15-10/738156#738156

[cigtoxdoc]

I tried numerous changes in theme using Gnome Tweak tool, but no improvement LibreOffice and readability problems with Evolution. I have too much urgent client work to mess with LibreOffice config files when I do not know what I am doing. Looks like this is an intractable problem w/o a revision in LibreOffice to change font colors on tabs.

John

[vasa1]

Did you try this?
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-gtk3If it doesn't work, you can just re-install the package.

Removing libreoffice-gtk3 will force LibreOffice into gtk2 mode.

[cigtoxdoc]

Thank you vasa1. You have provided the correct answer. Removing libreoffice-gtk3 solved problem.

John

[vasa1]

Glad I could help :)