SOLVED: Absolute Idiot's Guide to Themes?

**alphaamanitin** · July 8th, 2013

Hello Forum,

I don't know why, but I just am having a hard time wrapping my head around editing themes. I have read about it, but I need guide that is for a 3 year old or something. My real problem is that I like the default Greybird and the like, but in LibreOffice Math the buttons in the "elements" toolbar are not very visible, but if I put on something like a dark one, I don't like the looks that much.

Thanks,

AlphaA

**Peripheral Visionary** · July 8th, 2013

Here is one that might help, and here is one with some screen shots and stuff to help you visualize things.

**vasa1** · July 8th, 2013

Originally Posted by alphaamanitin

... but in LibreOffice Math the buttons in the "elements" toolbar are not very visible, but if I put on something like a dark one, I don't like the looks that much.
...

Could you put up an image? I have LibreOffice 4, but I don't see an "elements" toolbar. There's a sort of panel which looks like this (using default Greybird)

**alphaamanitin** · July 9th, 2013

Well, usig the default settings, and most of the settings that are not dark themes my menu is crap. I cannot figure out why it is this way, any thoughts?

AlphaA

**Toz** · July 9th, 2013

This is definitely not normal. Which version of Xubuntu and libreoffice are you using?

Have you made any changes to the default greybird theme?

Have you added any gtk hacks to either /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc or $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0? Perhaps you can post the contents of those two file.

Have you made any changes to libreoffice appearance settings (Tools->Options->Libreoffice->Appearance)?

**alphaamanitin** · July 9th, 2013

I am running Xubuntu 12.04 LTS on a Pan9 System76 laptop. To my knowledge I have changed nothing. I have installed some themes, but I have not customized anything in regards to the xubuntu theme or the LibreOffice appearance. When I get back home I will check the files you suggest and post them.

I can say this though; recently I was away from the net for 10 days and built up 41 updates. It wanted to to a partial update, which I did, then did a full update. After that, LibreOffice was gone, and attempting to reinstall via apt-get would not work. It said I was missing certain libreoffice dependancies. I, therefore, downloaded LibreOffice 4 AMD64 from the LibreOffice homepage and followed the instructions for installing from the *.deb files. I then installed the local help .deb, and the result, is as you see, crappy icons. I will also post a screen of the icons in writer. They are awful, clearly visible, but awful. I hate the way they look, and I don't remember having this problem when I first installed LibreOffice 4 (the installation I had before I did the partial update I just mentioned, and was installed in the same way as the newest installation).

Maybe I can get this resolved, I have not been happy with the overall look of my installation.

Thanks,

AlphaA

**Toz** · July 9th, 2013

Originally Posted by alphaamanitin

I can say this though; recently I was away from the net for 10 days and built up 41 updates. It wanted to to a partial update, which I did, then did a full update. After that, LibreOffice was gone, and attempting to reinstall via apt-get would not work. It said I was missing certain libreoffice dependancies.

Can you aso post back the results of:

Code:

sudo apt-get update

...and

Code:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice

**alphaamanitin** · July 10th, 2013

Okay, so, no files for the gtkrc you asked for. This is what I do have

Code:

user@Q:~$ ls /etc/gtk-2.0/
im-multipress.conf
user@Q:~$ ls /etc/gtk-3.0/
im-multipress.conf  settings.ini

For my $HOME: I only have $HOME/.gtk-bookmarks

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Reading package lists...

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user@Q:~$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libcdr-0.0-0 libclucene-contribs1 libclucene-core1 libcmis-0.3-3
  libexttextcat-2.0-0 libexttextcat-data libhyphen0 liblangtag-common
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  libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core
  libreoffice-draw libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-impress
  libreoffice-java-common libreoffice-math libreoffice-pdfimport
  libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-style-galaxy
  libreoffice-style-human libreoffice-writer libvisio-0.0-0 python-uno
  uno-libs3 ure xfonts-mathml
Suggested packages:
  hyphen-hyphenation-patterns libreoffice-grammarcheck libreoffice-help-4.1
  libreoffice-l10n-4.1 myspell-dictionary mythes-thesaurus
  openclipart-libreoffice pstoedit libreoffice-officebean libmyodbc
  odbc-postgresql libsqliteodbc tdsodbc mdbtools libmysql-java libpg-java
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  libreoffice-style-crystal libreoffice-style-hicontrast
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  crystalcursors kde-icons-crystal otf-stix
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libreoffice-debian-menus
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libcdr-0.0-0 libclucene-contribs1 libclucene-core1 libcmis-0.3-3
  libexttextcat-2.0-0 libexttextcat-data libhyphen0 liblangtag-common
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0 upgraded, 33 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
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Any thoughts?

Thanks,

AlphaA

**UPDATE**

So, I went in and changed the view in LibreOffice's menu, and it is now fixed. I don't know how it got that way in the first place, because I never touched it. Even in the previous install.