Hi

Thanks for the reply, and info.

Yeah, I forgot to include certain details.

I am using xfce4 desktop, have Adwaita-dark, and xfce-duskm as well as other themes installed.

Once again thanks.

BTW tried out openmandriva other night, opened libreoffice, using the dark theme and libreiffice took the dark theme naturally - scratches
head,

On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 08:23:44 +0100
Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> wrote:

Am 13.12.24 um 13:02 schrieb david thompson:

I am having some trouble getting libreoffice or/and openoffice
adopting the system theme - they wont do it.

There are packages like for example libreoffice-plasma,
libreoffice-kf5, libreoffice-style-breeze you can use for integration
in your desktop environment. Which DE do you use?

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Am 15.12.24 um 13:37 schrieb david thompson:

I am using xfce4 desktop, have Adwaita-dark, and xfce-duskm as well as other themes installed.

Please try libreoffice-gtk3

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Hello,

Just followed your advice, but have to say that libreoffice on Debian
is not what I was expecting; slow start-up, opens .odt documents with
wrong application (chart when it should be a word-processor), online
help about this issue is no help, cannot open word-processor directly
have to go through an interface.

Not your fault.

Have installed Abiword - instantly takes theme, no problem in
opening .odt docs - just have to find a way to have my adaptations set
as default.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:00:23 +0100
Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> wrote:

Am 15.12.24 um 13:37 schrieb david thompson:

I am using xfce4 desktop, have Adwaita-dark, and xfce-duskm as well
as other themes installed.

Please try libreoffice-gtk3

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On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:54:49 +0000
<dmthompson@gmx.com> wrote:

Hello,

Just followed your advice, but have to say that libreoffice on Debian
is not what I was expecting; slow start-up, opens .odt documents with
wrong application (chart when it should be a word-processor), online
help about this issue is no help, cannot open word-processor directly
have to go through an interface.

Does your Main Menu > Office sub-menu not contain a LibreOffice Writer
entry, along with LibreOffice Calc and others? The exact items here
will depend on what was selected at installation.

Not your fault.

Have installed Abiword - instantly takes theme, no problem in
opening .odt docs - just have to find a way to have my adaptations set
as default.

Right-click an .odt file, Open With.. > Set Default Application..

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Thanks all!

Especially Gutmann's ref looks very interesting!

Cheers
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Hi all,

Thanks for the reply, and help.

I do not know the answer to the question, as yet. All i know is that
unlike what I am used to, some kind of user interface comes up, where
one part is a large box that incite dropping docs into to open - I tried
that yesterday but still got an attempt to open a chart for a switer
doc. There are on the right, if i remember correctly, shaded out menu
entries for swriter, scalc, sdraw or libreoffice equivlent - but i will
need to further investigate.

I just typed, to install libreoffice-gtk, one would expect for all
components of the suite to be installed - right;)

All the best.

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:30:06 +0000
Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:54:49 +0000
<dmthompson@gmx.com> wrote:

Hello,

Just followed your advice, but have to say that libreoffice on
Debian is not what I was expecting; slow start-up, opens .odt
documents with wrong application (chart when it should be a word-processor), online help about this issue is no help, cannot
open word-processor directly have to go through an interface.

Does your Main Menu > Office sub-menu not contain a LibreOffice Writer
entry, along with LibreOffice Calc and others? The exact items here
will depend on what was selected at installation.

Not your fault.

Have installed Abiword - instantly takes theme, no problem in
opening .odt docs - just have to find a way to have my adaptations
set as default.

Right-click an .odt file, Open With.. > Set Default Application..

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I believe, the original poster meant, if he clicks on an *.odt file, then he expects libreoffice to be started.

This is a feature of the windowmanager he is using.

To help him, we should know, which windowmanager (KDE, Gnome, XFCE whatever)
he is using, as each wm jhas its own settings.

Hans

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Hi all,

Its what I am used to doing, and my thinking seems to go that way, but
you are right, at the end of the day.

I looged back into Debian this morning, after the email I sent following
this thread title/subject, and you are right, and i think the person
called Joe gave the hint, and i checked to see if swriter was installed
it was not so I installed it, and the was able to open a swriter doc in
the word-processor.

So basically, it looks like the problem is solved - apart from the slow startup.

I generally use slackware, and have not encountered these problems.

All thanks for the help, its much appreciated.

cheers

On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 12:00:31PM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:29:34 +0000
<dmthompson@gmx.com> wrote:

Hello dmthompson@gmx.com,

I just typed, to install libreoffice-gtk, one would expect for all >>components of the suite to be installed - right;)

No; Why would you install (for example) libreoffice-qt if you don't use >KDE/Plasma?

A rhetorical question.

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On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:00:26 +0000
Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:34:42 +0000
dmthompson@gmx.com wrote:

Hello dmthompson@gmx.com,

called Joe gave the hint, and i checked to see if swriter was
installed it was not so I installed it, and the was able to open a
swriter doc in

That makes it sound as though you may not have the package
'libreoffice' installed. libreoffice is a metapackage that will
install all the _required_ parts of LO. There will still be optional
parts that it may be desirable for you to also install, but that's up
to you.

I don't know what you use for package management but trying installing
the metapackage 'libreoffice'. It can't hurt - if it's already
installed your installer will tell you so.

A standard Debian stable installation will not include Base or Impress,
but they can be added later, of course. It should certainly have
included Writer.

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On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:51:09 +0000
Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:39:21 +0000
Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

Hello Joe,

A standard Debian stable installation will not include Base or
Impress,

Really? Because I see Depends: libreoffice-impress and
libreoffice-base in testing.

OK, times change. A recent installation of bookworm does have Impress,
my sid workstation doesn't, and I can't remember which stable this
originated from.

Both have libreoffice-base-core, shared libraries for Base, Calc and
writer but neither have Base itself, nor Report Builder. Understandable,
as last time I tried them they were both unusably buggy. RB completely
failed to run one day when I needed an invoice in a hurry, so I threw
together something with php-tcpdf and never went near RB again. I
suppose it might be OK now. It took Base a couple of years to get a
native MySQL driver, before which the unspeakable Linux odbc driver had
to be used, and sometimes worked.

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Hi,

What happened, to install openoffice using dpkg, libreoffice was
removed, along with various other packages, so when i came back to
reinstating libreoffice (as part of testing) openoffice was removed,
but I believe when I installed libreoffice-gtk3 not all the components
of libreoffice were pulled in - unlike the standard libreoffice install
- if this make sense to all.

Anyway the problem is removed - all is well.

Thanks everyone.

On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 01:00:26PM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:34:42 +0000
dmthompson@gmx.com wrote:

Hello dmthompson@gmx.com,

called Joe gave the hint, and i checked to see if swriter was installed
it was not so I installed it, and the was able to open a swriter doc in

That makes it sound as though you may not have the package 'libreoffice' >installed. libreoffice is a metapackage that will install all the
_required_ parts of LO. There will still be optional parts that it may
be desirable for you to also install, but that's up to you.

I don't know what you use for package management but trying installing
the metapackage 'libreoffice'. It can't hurt - if it's already installed >your installer will tell you so.

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