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Meru
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 Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 9:45 pm Post subject: Changing OpenOffice.org User Interface Color? |
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I'm the tiniest bit obsessive about having a consistent UI, so OpenOffice.org is driving me crazy. The default grey looks horrible with the rest of my LightHouseBlue color scheme.
What does it take to change its color (background, highlighting, etc) to match the rest of my applications?
Thanks for the help! |
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max_colby
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| I'm running the Openoffice 643C Developer Build which is on the Openoffice.org website, and instead of using grey for toolbars, it matches itself to LighthouseBlue and presumably any other gtk themes. I'm not sure how, or even if this can be done with Openoffice 1.0.1. It's a help, but still not perfect. |
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semiSfear
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Does that mean I have to compile OpenOffice.org ? Coz now I use the bins 1.0.3.1 and I also think think they grey theme is really ugly. Is there any way to make OpenOffice use GTK themes ?
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timmfin
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't think you necessarily need to compile it. I'm using the ooffice 1.1 ximian build (same problem has happened for the past few versions) and I don't pick up the background color, but this is only when I am in fluxbox. When I open it in gnome, the background color is picked up correctly. I don't know if this is a fluxbox or a oo problem. |
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homar
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, this problem annoyed for a long time, so I eventually downloaded the source to see how it's done.
It checks that the root window has an atom called "GNOME_SM_PROXY". Which is why running gnome (and metacity or sawfish) it'll match the gtk theme and running fluxbox (or pekwm or whatever) it won't.
I wrote a hack for pekwm to has this atom and now OpenOffice.org is themed correctly. But it'll be better to convince the OpenOffice.org developers that just because you aren't using gnome, doesn't mean you're not using gtk apps. |
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semiSfear
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, so this means there is no way of telling OOo-bin to pick up a matching background color, or setting it manually?
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timmfin
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 2:15 am Post subject: |
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Homar, maybe you could make that hack into a small stand-alone app. I could go and do it, but you already have the code written  . I would just add it to my startup script (after fluxbox is loaded though). Thanks if you do it. |
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homar
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Tested on twm and pekwm.
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/*
* gcc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 oo_gtk_theme.c -o oo_gtk_theme
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/Xatom.h>
int
main(void)
{
Display *d;
Atom gnome;
d = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
if (!d) {
printf("X needs to be running\n");
return 1;
}
/* OpenOffice.org checks for a "GNOME_SM_PROXY" atom to determine whether
* to use the gtk theme colors, so we just pretend that we support that
* atom. This may break other apps.
*/
gnome = XInternAtom(d, "GNOME_SM_PROXY", False);
XChangeProperty(d, DefaultRootWindow(d), gnome, XA_STRING, 8, PropModeReplace,
"GNOME_SM_PROXY", 14);
XCloseDisplay(d);
return 0;
}
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timmfin
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| Thank you much, works for me in fluxbox .9.4. |
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drakos7
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| great work |
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DJ_Grijander
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Probably just a nOOb stupid thing, but when I try and execute the hack I get some errors. I'm using kahakai as my WM, and I put the script in my ~/.kahakai directory, then I run:
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# ~/.kahakai/gnome_hack
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And this is what I get:
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./gnome_hack: line 1: /bin: is a directory
./gnome_hack: line 2: autostart: command not found
./gnome_hack: line 3: backgrounds/: is a directory
: command not found5:
: command not found8:
./gnome_hack: line 9: int: command not found
./gnome_hack: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `void'
'/gnome_hack: line 10: `main(void)
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I know it will be some obvious mistake I'm making, but I just can't guess (too new in Linux, still). Thanks for your help. |
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adriang
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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this is not a shell script, but a c program. thus you will have to
| Code: | | # gcc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 oo_gtk_theme.c -o oo_gtk_theme |
where oo_gtk_theme.c is the script posted in this thread.
then do
and it should work.
adrian
edit:
the correct command line is in the first comment of the source, i should look first next time |
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DJ_Grijander
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Thanks for the help, adriang. I knew I was a n00b, but man it seems that I am a heavy one! OK, so I followed your indications, but OO still resists to use my gtk theme. I saved the source (without the first 3 lines) as "oo_gtk_theme.c" and then:
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# gcc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 oo_gtk_theme.c -o oo_gtk_theme
# ./oo_gtk_theme
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I get no error message in the process. Then, before launching oowriter, I select a new theme with gtk_theme_switch (and I actually get the theme applied to, for example, Ximian Evolution), but nothing changes in OO. Same old grey colors. I'm using kahakai as my WM and OO_Ximian_1.1_rc3, if this gives any clue... Thanks again. Looks like I'll have to keep on fighting with OO. |
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xlyz
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:37 am Post subject: |
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wow, it works!
thanks homar  |
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you guys might also appreciate this
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| hook wrote: | | you guys might also appreciate this |
not needed with ximian-oo  |
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hook
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| xlyz wrote: | | hook wrote: | | you guys might also appreciate this |
not needed with ximian-oo |
true, but not everyone wants ximian-oo ...btw, there's also a project to port OOo to a Kpart widget - meaning it to be fully KDE themable ...please note, that the patch in my previous post (although it's found on kde-look) is KDE independant, you only need OOo.
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shm
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 2:09 am Post subject: |
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| xlyz wrote: | | hook wrote: | | you guys might also appreciate this |
not needed with ximian-oo |
Yeah, but then you replace OO.org's shoddy icons with Ximian's shoddy icons, great advance there =)
They really should include that script with a future version of OOo 1.1
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hook
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| shm wrote: | | xlyz wrote: | | hook wrote: | | you guys might also appreciate this |
not needed with ximian-oo |
Yeah, but then you replace OO.org's shoddy icons with Ximian's shoddy icons, great advance there =)
They really should include that script with a future version of OOo 1.1 |
but with this patch, you can change the icons to ANY icontype you want ...that's my point ...you're not limited to ximian's icons
...well, enought flaming
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| max_colby wrote: | | I'm running the Openoffice 643C Developer Build which is on the Openoffice.org website, and instead of using grey for toolbars, it matches itself to LighthouseBlue and presumably any other gtk themes. I'm not sure how, or even if this can be done with Openoffice 1.0.1. It's a help, but still not perfect. |
Got a screenshot? |
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maxcow
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Just posting to say it works fine on XFCE4.
...And it's really stupid to have to pretend to be rrunning e so that it follows gtk themes 
Anyway, homar: thanks for this awesome tip! |
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LGW
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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guess what - this is even MORE stupid as one might think.
OpenOffice 1.1 seems to have this feature, too.
Well. OK, I AM running gnome, and I use an Aqua-Theme.
Now the great, great OpenOffice uses the background color (white), but of course it does not use the gtk2 buttons (which are blue), so I get a white-on-white GUI.
Headaches guaranteed. I'll try to find out if it's possible to use your program "the other way round"
edit: just wanted to note, OpenOffice IS great. Really. I think this is the only "big error" that's annoying me, but I think it is a stupid one. I would even state this is a M$-typical error. Doing something "behind the scenes" that's impossible for the user to change. Or I just don't find out how. Than it's possibly me who's stupid |
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Skotlex
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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I just found this thread while searching for the very exact problem, and I must say it ended up being handy (the script, that is) because the default gray colors was driving me crazy as well.
OOo is now up to version 1.1.2, anyone knows if this "workaround" is still needed? Why don't they just add a parameter to the launcher to choose "which theme-set to match", or use an enviromental variable? Why something so complicated such as an X "atom".... I would think this issue has been brought up already to the OOo team? |
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Bushmann
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:10 am Post subject: |
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there's a solution!
create /etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf
and insert:
# force OOo to use theme settings from gnome or KDE or disable?
# set to 'gnome', 'kde' or 'none' to override the autodetection
export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome |
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xanderhsia
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| Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:17 am Post subject: Excellent! This worked |
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The ugly gray default of openoffice had been bugging me too. I tried changing from the appearance menu inside openoffice, but that doesn't seem to be implemented right. Even after chaning the application background to a red color, it remained, you guessed it... drab gray.  The hint about creating an openoffice.conf file in it was right on.  This should be added to default openoffice[-ximian] ebuilds. |
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