Libre Office issue

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Using WindowsBlind 10.65 Dark Mode skin (style) with MS Office and also with Libre Office 6.02.  With MS Office I get a nice dark grey page and soft white text, which is great.  But with Libre office the page is still bright white with black text.  What am I doing wrong??  Any feedback is appreciated.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

What OS are you running? And Your Windowblinds Theme?

 

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Yup, I tested it with any Windowblinds theme. Libra office has set that part to permanent white. It can't be change. Just like some part in Windows 10 are set to look that way. i.e Jumplist permanant black and darkgray o_O  :(  

There is nothing you can do to change that, at least that I know off.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top


Using WindowsBlind 10.65 Dark Mode skin (style) with MS Office and also with Libre Office 6.02.  With MS Office I get a nice dark grey page and soft white text, which is great.  But with Libre office the page is still bright white with black text.  What am I doing wrong??  Any feedback is appreciated.
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You are doing nothing wrong. :grin: But if you had looked a little closer you would have found out that colors can be manually adjusted in LibreOffice.

Open a new empty text document in LibreOffice Writer then click Tools in menubar. Choose "Options" and a new window will open. Go to LibreOffice > Application Colors and then you can tweak pretty much any color you see on the screen.

You can also save your settings as Color Schemes.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Yes, thank you for that, and I am now good with LO. 

Now I need to be able to easily switch back and forth between the standard Windows theme for MS Office (bright-white background + black text) for my wife and the Dark Mode skin for me.  Tried the per-app-exclusion but it left the Dark Mode color scheme unchanged, no matter what I tried.  So I gave up and uninstalled WindowBlinds but MS Office still displayed in the Dark Theme skin (I can't remember if that was also the case for the Windows desktop).  So I had to go back to the previous Windows restore point I created before the installation, and all is back to normal now.

Now I find out that you have to use SkinStudio to disable the system-wide color scheme in addition to the per-app-exclusion?  I really love the Dark Mode skin/theme for the desktop and for MS Office but is there a way to enable/disable it completely on the fly?

I haven't experimented with other apps and/or browsers to see if there are other issues so is there a clean way to uninstall WB without having to revert to a previous restore point?

 

 

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Note When you uninstall WB you should always load the default skin first. Now you won't have any problems. 

Maybe I'm missing something here so i'm just throwing this out there. I understand Your situation with MS Office. Why can't you just open WindowBlinds and load the Default skin for Office and when doing other things use the dark theme you like. No need to get rid of WB as changing the skin if open Windowblind highlight the skin you want to use and click apply. Done.

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I do not think WB wisely enough to exclude one color pattern for one application;it's overall effect just like MS Windows theme.