The shell scripts that run all of OO.o's applications are found in the following directory:Įach of the OO.o applications has its own shell script. I couldn't find an updated workaround and between desperation, aggravation, and a lack of patience, motivation set in and I went about to find one of my own.įirst a short lesson. The Ubuntu forums had this asked and answered with a workaround, but that broke with the new release of 8.04 Hardy Heron. One commenter posts that it still persists in the 3.0 Beta. Apparently this is a known bug at OpenOffice's bug tracker, but there's yet to be a fix. What you would see on the screen could be far different from what you print. applications would start in a high contrast mode and would not display the pages with correct coloring. I'd been having issues with colors in applications while using a dark GTK2.0 theme for my Gnome environment. If your OpenOffice is super screwed up by dark themes, try this neat hack from Adam Stovicek: Uncheck 'Automatically detect high contrast mode of operating system' If your Writer is in 'High Contrast' mode try this:Ĭlick Tools -> Options -> dropdown box -> Accessibility A more complete fix/hack is linked and quoted below.Ĭlick Tools -> Options -> dropdown box -> Appearanceįrom there, you can change the color of your page if that's your problem Hey guys, I think I found the setting to fix some issues.

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