OpenOffice.org Colour Scheme / Appearance Problem

JstAnonymous · Post by **JstAnonymous** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:31 am

Hey ho!

I have a problem using open office. Actually im really satisfied with it, but since i changed my OS to Ubuntu i have problems with its appearance. My Ubuntu Desktop is quite dark coloured and Open Office uses the same colour scheme. Thats my Problem, i dont want it to look like my gnome desktop. I want it to look like the default Open office. Can somebody give me an advice how to set it to the default colours?

thanks in advance and have a good day!

edit this topic's initial post · Post by **Villeroy** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:41 pm

You see the input box in the top-right corner of the current page? Type "color scheme" and hit enter.

JstAnonymous · Post by **JstAnonymous** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:04 pm

You mean on the right of the interrogation mark? I dont have a input box, and if i clock on the interrogation mark for help i get the message "the help file is not installed" ... what am i doing wrong?

edit this topic's initial post · Post by **Villeroy** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:21 pm

JstAnonymous · Post by **JstAnonymous** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:33 pm

oh okay. Well, yes, i already did that, but i only find threads mentioning the Problem das people WANT their color scheme in Open Office, ich DONT want it. So the Search Function didnt help, thats why i made a new thread.

edit this topic's initial post · Post by **Villeroy** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:51 pm

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/ ... lor+scheme

JstAnonymous · Post by **JstAnonymous** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:04 pm

so i guess this is a "no" for changing it ... thx anyway

Post by **acknak** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:32 pm

Actually, I think your question is different than what others have asked about. Usually, people want OOo to follow their desktop theme, which it does, but the result is not very satisfying. They want to tweak OOo's appearance, which is not possible.

However, if I understand correctly, you want OOo to ignore the desktop theme and have the default appearance.

OOo has no setting for that either (that I know of anyway), but I wonder if the system does not allow it--to exempt certain applications from using the current theme? If I were you, that's the direction I'd look in. It might be a configuration file (e.g. .gtkrc) or some environment setting that you could put in a wrapper script. Unfortunately, that's probably going to mean finding a Gnome, or KDE, or Ubuntu support resource.

Whatever you find, maybe you could let us know.

aghahowa · Post by **aghahowa** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 10:00 am

Same Problem here.
It would be a good addition to have a default scheme.

Post by **Robert Tucker** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 11:05 am

See also:

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/ ... 16&t=35660

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