Using ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging dropdown menus in Libreoffice are messed up
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu GNOME |
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Bug Description
What did I do?
I installed ppa:gnome3-
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
What did happen?
All dropdown menus in LibreOffice Writer are a mess: The don't have a border, don't have a white background and if the selected entry changes (for example you move the cursor between to paragraphs with different fonts) the text becomes unreadable.
I gues, this is a problem with QT?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: libreoffice-core 1:5.1.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu May 19 02:00:42 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (26 days ago)
affects: | libreoffice (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-gnome |
FWIW, what I assume happening here is:
- something in the gnome ppa pulls in libreoffice-gtk3
- LibreOffice prefers the gtk3 backend over the gtk2 backend now (does so too on Debian btw)
workaround: set SAL_USE_ VCLPLUGIN= gtk or SAL_USE_ VCLPLUGIN= gen to force other plugins.
proper solution: Improve the gtk3 themes so they work proper in LibreOffice too.