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OpenOffice.org Colour Scheme / Appearance Problem
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:31 am
by JstAnonymous
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!
Re: Open Office Colour Scheme / Appearance Problem
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:41 pm
by Villeroy
You see the input box in the top-right corner of the current page? Type "color scheme" and hit enter.
Re: Open Office Colour Scheme / Appearance Problem
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:04 pm
by JstAnonymous
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?
Re: Open Office Colour Scheme / Appearance Problem
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:21 pm
by Villeroy
Re: Open Office Colour Scheme / Appearance Problem
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:33 pm
by JstAnonymous
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.
Re: Open Office Colour Scheme / Appearance Problem
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:51 pm
by Villeroy
Re: Open Office Colour Scheme / Appearance Problem
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:04 pm
by JstAnonymous
so i guess this is a "no" for changing it ... thx anyway
Re: Open Office Colour Scheme / Appearance Problem
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:32 pm
by acknak
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.
Re: Open Office Colour Scheme / Appearance Problem
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 10:00 am
by aghahowa
Same Problem here.
It would be a good addition to have a default scheme.
Re: Open Office Colour Scheme / Appearance Problem
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 11:05 am
by Robert Tucker