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The LibreOffice has this weird dark to white gradient in the toolbar. I don't have any custom LO theme (maybe an icon theme). I do have a dark Plasma theme, but none of the KDE apps have any gradient issues. (I'm not really sure if LO is a Qt or GTK). I've tried searching through LO options, messing around with colour settings, but couldn't find anything that would help.

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I'm not sure if it's related, but those cell headers have this light highlight that's also distracting, but I also couldn't find anywhere to change that.

$ pacman -Qi libreoffice-fresh | grep Version
Version         : 5.1.3-1
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  • askubuntu.com/questions/786416/libreoffice-has-black-ui
    – DK Bose
    Jun 13, 2016 at 14:58
  • @DKBose are you suggesting it's cross-posted? It seems like a (slightly) different issue.
    – terdon ♦
    Jun 13, 2016 at 15:39
  • Totally different. Was just an FYI.
    – DK Bose
    Jun 13, 2016 at 15:42
  • @DKBose oh, OK, I was asking 'cause it is actually the same OP.
    – terdon ♦
    Jun 13, 2016 at 16:00
  • yeah, that post is mine too. different issues. different posts. Just the other one was specifically on lubuntu, that's why it's on askubuntu. This one is on my arch.
    – JonnyRobbie
    Jun 13, 2016 at 22:17

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It looks like this is an issue with the current Qt / Plasma widget set for Libreoffice (hope they sort it out soon). In the meantime, you can manually force LibreOffice to use a different toolkit using the SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN environment variable.

For example: SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk localc will launch LibreOffice Calc using GTK instead (gen and kde4 are also valid options).

This can also be set on a more permanent basis by editing /etc/profile.d/libreoffice-fresh.sh

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  • But this forces LO into gtk, which I'd like to avoid, because it has an abysmal file-choosing dialog.
    – JonnyRobbie
    Nov 29, 2016 at 15:12
  • Does SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen or SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=kde4 provide a better file choice dialog? They're also available as alternatives.
    – Adam Luchjenbroers
    Dec 5, 2016 at 1:57
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According to https://forum.antergos.com/topic/4006/libreoffice-writer-has-awful-gradient-in-toolbar-backgrounds/2

You need to create, add, or uncomment this line in your /etc/profile.d/libreoffice-fresh.sh file:

export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk

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