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| Started by | david thompson <crass@gmx.co.uk> |
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| First post | 2024-12-13 13:30 +0100 |
| Last post | 2024-12-19 12:50 +0100 |
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libreoffice/openoffice system theme david thompson <crass@gmx.co.uk> - 2024-12-13 13:30 +0100
Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2024-12-15 08:30 +0100
Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme david thompson <dmthompson@gmx.com> - 2024-12-15 13:40 +0100
Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2024-12-15 14:10 +0100
Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme <dmthompson@gmx.com> - 2024-12-17 14:00 +0100
Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-12-17 14:40 +0100
Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme <dmthompson@gmx.com> - 2024-12-18 12:40 +0100
Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-12-18 13:20 +0100
Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme dmthompson@gmx.com - 2024-12-18 13:40 +0100
Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-12-18 14:40 +0100
Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-12-18 16:40 +0100
Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme dmthompson@gmx.com - 2024-12-19 12:50 +0100
| From | david thompson <crass@gmx.co.uk> |
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| Date | 2024-12-13 13:30 +0100 |
| Subject | libreoffice/openoffice system theme |
| Message-ID | <JTcXT-gCUj-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
Hi all, I am having some trouble getting libreoffice or/and openoffice adopting the system theme - they wont do it. I use a dark theme, due to my eyesight - it helps. Things is that on Devuan libreoffice/openoffice naturally adopts the system theme - why is that? This happens on LMDE as well. Both Debian and LMDE are the bookworm version of debian. Does someone know how to fix this - I asked on linuxquestions, but it seems no one knows. All advice is much appreciated. cheers
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| From | Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> |
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| Date | 2024-12-15 08:30 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JTReF-h9Et-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #275632 |
Am 13.12.24 um 13:02 schrieb david thompson: > I am having some trouble getting libreoffice or/and openoffice adopting the system theme - they wont do it. There are packages like for example libreoffice-plasma, libreoffice-kf5, libreoffice-style-breeze you can use for integration in your desktop environment. Which DE do you use?
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| From | david thompson <dmthompson@gmx.com> |
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| Date | 2024-12-15 13:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JTW4F-hcw8-21@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #275725 |
Hi Thanks for the reply, and info. Yeah, I forgot to include certain details. I am using xfce4 desktop, have Adwaita-dark, and xfce-duskm as well as other themes installed. Once again thanks. BTW tried out openmandriva other night, opened libreoffice, using the dark theme and libreiffice took the dark theme naturally - scratches head, On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 08:23:44 +0100 Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> wrote: > Am 13.12.24 um 13:02 schrieb david thompson: > > I am having some trouble getting libreoffice or/and openoffice > > adopting the system theme - they wont do it. > > There are packages like for example libreoffice-plasma, > libreoffice-kf5, libreoffice-style-breeze you can use for integration > in your desktop environment. Which DE do you use? >
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| From | Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> |
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| Date | 2024-12-15 14:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JTWxH-hcVg-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #275731 |
Am 15.12.24 um 13:37 schrieb david thompson: > I am using xfce4 desktop, have Adwaita-dark, and xfce-duskm as well as other themes installed. Please try libreoffice-gtk3
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| From | <dmthompson@gmx.com> |
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| Date | 2024-12-17 14:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JUFl8-dJu-23@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #275732 |
Hello, Just followed your advice, but have to say that libreoffice on Debian is not what I was expecting; slow start-up, opens .odt documents with wrong application (chart when it should be a word-processor), online help about this issue is no help, cannot open word-processor directly have to go through an interface. Not your fault. Have installed Abiword - instantly takes theme, no problem in opening .odt docs - just have to find a way to have my adaptations set as default. Thanks for your help. Cheers On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:00:23 +0100 Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> wrote: > Am 15.12.24 um 13:37 schrieb david thompson: > > I am using xfce4 desktop, have Adwaita-dark, and xfce-duskm as well > > as other themes installed. > > Please try libreoffice-gtk3 >
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| From | Joe <joe@jretrading.com> |
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| Date | 2024-12-17 14:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JUFXP-ebz-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #275819 |
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:54:49 +0000 <dmthompson@gmx.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Just followed your advice, but have to say that libreoffice on Debian > is not what I was expecting; slow start-up, opens .odt documents with > wrong application (chart when it should be a word-processor), online > help about this issue is no help, cannot open word-processor directly > have to go through an interface. Does your Main Menu > Office sub-menu not contain a LibreOffice Writer entry, along with LibreOffice Calc and others? The exact items here will depend on what was selected at installation. > > Not your fault. > > Have installed Abiword - instantly takes theme, no problem in > opening .odt docs - just have to find a way to have my adaptations set > as default. > Right-click an .odt file, Open With.. > Set Default Application.. -- Joe
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| From | <dmthompson@gmx.com> |
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| Date | 2024-12-18 12:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JV0zg-tVB-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #275821 |
Hi all, Thanks for the reply, and help. I do not know the answer to the question, as yet. All i know is that unlike what I am used to, some kind of user interface comes up, where one part is a large box that incite dropping docs into to open - I tried that yesterday but still got an attempt to open a chart for a switer doc. There are on the right, if i remember correctly, shaded out menu entries for swriter, scalc, sdraw or libreoffice equivlent - but i will need to further investigate. I just typed, to install libreoffice-gtk, one would expect for all components of the suite to be installed - right;) All the best. On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:30:06 +0000 Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:54:49 +0000 > <dmthompson@gmx.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Just followed your advice, but have to say that libreoffice on > > Debian is not what I was expecting; slow start-up, opens .odt > > documents with wrong application (chart when it should be a > > word-processor), online help about this issue is no help, cannot > > open word-processor directly have to go through an interface. > > Does your Main Menu > Office sub-menu not contain a LibreOffice Writer > entry, along with LibreOffice Calc and others? The exact items here > will depend on what was selected at installation. > > > > Not your fault. > > > > Have installed Abiword - instantly takes theme, no problem in > > opening .odt docs - just have to find a way to have my adaptations > > set as default. > > > > Right-click an .odt file, Open With.. > Set Default Application.. >
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| From | Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> |
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| Date | 2024-12-18 13:20 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JV1bX-uwC-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #275870 |
I believe, the original poster meant, if he clicks on an *.odt file, then he expects libreoffice to be started. This is a feature of the windowmanager he is using. To help him, we should know, which windowmanager (KDE, Gnome, XFCE whatever) he is using, as each wm jhas its own settings. Hans
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| From | dmthompson@gmx.com |
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| Date | 2024-12-18 13:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JV1vj-uHe-13@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #275870 |
Hi all,
Its what I am used to doing, and my thinking seems to go that way, but
you are right, at the end of the day.
I looged back into Debian this morning, after the email I sent following
this thread title/subject, and you are right, and i think the person
called Joe gave the hint, and i checked to see if swriter was installed
it was not so I installed it, and the was able to open a swriter doc in
the word-processor.
So basically, it looks like the problem is solved - apart from the slow
startup.
I generally use slackware, and have not encountered these problems.
All thanks for the help, its much appreciated.
cheers
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 12:00:31PM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:29:34 +0000
><dmthompson@gmx.com> wrote:
>
>Hello dmthompson@gmx.com,
>
>>I just typed, to install libreoffice-gtk, one would expect for all
>>components of the suite to be installed - right;)
>
>No; Why would you install (for example) libreoffice-qt if you don't use
>KDE/Plasma?
>
>A rhetorical question.
>
>--
> Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}"
> / ) "The blindingly obvious is never immediately apparent"
> / _)rad "Is it only me that has a working delete key?"
>You're the psychotic daughter of a psychotic mother
>Pure Mania - The Vibrators
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| From | Joe <joe@jretrading.com> |
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| Date | 2024-12-18 14:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JV2ro-vpY-25@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #275872 |
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:00:26 +0000 Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:34:42 +0000 > dmthompson@gmx.com wrote: > > Hello dmthompson@gmx.com, > > >called Joe gave the hint, and i checked to see if swriter was > >installed it was not so I installed it, and the was able to open a > >swriter doc in > > That makes it sound as though you may not have the package > 'libreoffice' installed. libreoffice is a metapackage that will > install all the _required_ parts of LO. There will still be optional > parts that it may be desirable for you to also install, but that's up > to you. > > I don't know what you use for package management but trying installing > the metapackage 'libreoffice'. It can't hurt - if it's already > installed your installer will tell you so. > A standard Debian stable installation will not include Base or Impress, but they can be added later, of course. It should certainly have included Writer. -- Joe
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| From | Joe <joe@jretrading.com> |
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| Date | 2024-12-18 16:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JV4jv-wRi-15@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #275875 |
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:51:09 +0000 Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:39:21 +0000 > Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote: > > Hello Joe, > > >A standard Debian stable installation will not include Base or > >Impress, > > Really? Because I see Depends: libreoffice-impress and > libreoffice-base in testing. > OK, times change. A recent installation of bookworm does have Impress, my sid workstation doesn't, and I can't remember which stable this originated from. Both have libreoffice-base-core, shared libraries for Base, Calc and writer but neither have Base itself, nor Report Builder. Understandable, as last time I tried them they were both unusably buggy. RB completely failed to run one day when I needed an invoice in a hurry, so I threw together something with php-tcpdf and never went near RB again. I suppose it might be OK now. It took Base a couple of years to get a native MySQL driver, before which the unspeakable Linux odbc driver had to be used, and sometimes worked. -- Joe
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| From | dmthompson@gmx.com |
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| Date | 2024-12-19 12:50 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JVnct-S5b-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #275872 |
Hi,
What happened, to install openoffice using dpkg, libreoffice was
removed, along with various other packages, so when i came back to
reinstating libreoffice (as part of testing) openoffice was removed,
but I believe when I installed libreoffice-gtk3 not all the components
of libreoffice were pulled in - unlike the standard libreoffice install
- if this make sense to all.
Anyway the problem is removed - all is well.
Thanks everyone.
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 01:00:26PM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:34:42 +0000
>dmthompson@gmx.com wrote:
>
>Hello dmthompson@gmx.com,
>
>>called Joe gave the hint, and i checked to see if swriter was installed
>>it was not so I installed it, and the was able to open a swriter doc in
>
>That makes it sound as though you may not have the package 'libreoffice'
>installed. libreoffice is a metapackage that will install all the
>_required_ parts of LO. There will still be optional parts that it may
>be desirable for you to also install, but that's up to you.
>
>I don't know what you use for package management but trying installing
>the metapackage 'libreoffice'. It can't hurt - if it's already installed
>your installer will tell you so.
>
>--
> Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}"
> / ) "The blindingly obvious is never immediately apparent"
> / _)rad "Is it only me that has a working delete key?"
>The deadbeats and the dispossessed, the seekers of unlikeliness
>Street Of Dreams - The Damned
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