On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 09:04 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > On Friday 16 October 2009 11:22:44 pm Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > > > Please don't top-post. Anyhow, to the OP, are you using a dark theme of > > some sort? Openoffice has problems with not showing the correct colours if > > you're using some sort of non-default (Gnome) theme. > > > > Ng, > > I bet you are 100% correct! Brilliant. > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/my-kde-dark- > theme-800.jpg > > My theme is based on Obsidian Coast. Switching back to the default theme cures > the problem. You would think Sun could accommodate something as simple as > themed color schemes. > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/oo-row-color-ok- > light-theme.jpg > > Thanks Ng -- mystery solved. > > Arch folks, that nasty little intel graphics problem isn't also the result of > a dark theme is it ?:) > Well, its cos I use a dark colour scheme and have the same symptoms. Take a look in the AUR at openoffice-dark-gtk-fix and go-openoffice-dark-gtk-fix, pretty simple scripts which will fix the issue without you having to change your theme (basically start the openoffice up with a certain theme, whatever your current theme is).
