Bug 164198 - [UI] You must restart LibreOffice so that a new text document gets the new document background color
Summary: [UI] You must restart LibreOffice so that a new text document gets the new do...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
7.6.2.1 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) All
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: 166362 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 166870
Blocks: Options-Dialog-Writer
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Reported: 2024-12-05 21:06 UTC by LeroyG
Modified: 2025-06-18 14:42 UTC (History)
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Description LeroyG 2024-12-05 21:06:24 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
0. Create a new text document and a new spreadsheet.
1. Choose a new document background color (menu Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Application Colors - General).
2.a. Choose menu File - New - Text Document
2.b. Choose menu File - New - Spreadsheet

Actual results:
1. (as expected)
2.a. Background color of the new text documents is not the new color, but the previous one.
2.a. (as expected)

Expected results:
1. Background color of both documents are changed to the new color.
2.a. Background color of the new text documents is the new color.
2.a. Background color of the new spreadsheet is the new color.

Version: 24.2.7.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: ee3885777aa7032db5a9b65deec9457448a91162
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: es-MX (es_ES); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2024-12-06 01:26:58 UTC 
Reproducible
Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 0f3f3710280d2476425bb86bc2e065e3e7a82952
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 2 BogdanB 2024-12-06 05:34:26 UTC 
And even if I close LibreOffice, the color is not changing as a background, because some LibreOffice processes are still active, I needed to go to Task Manager, close any LibreOffice still open there, than the changes are visible.
Comment 3 LeroyG 2024-12-06 11:40:27 UTC 
No problem with:

Version: 6.4.7.2 (x64)
Build ID: 639b8ac485750d5696d7590a72ef1b496725cfb5
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 17763; UI render: default; VCL: win; 
Locale: es-AR (es_AR); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 4 LeroyG 2024-12-06 22:53:26 UTC 
Reproducible with:

Version: 7.6.2.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 60(Build:1)
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.14; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: es-MX (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 5 steve 2025-06-18 14:12:59 UTC 
*** Bug 166362 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 V Stuart Foote 2025-06-18 14:42:48 UTC 
At 25.8.0 the Tools -> Options -> Appearance panel now includes a "Use white document background" that should apply by default and should not require installation of an Appearance theme nor modification of any of the Customizations list box entries.

Also, IINM from 25.8 the "Enable application theming" checkbox needs to be checked active to allow any change to the Customizations list box to apply and persist. The restart remains necessary when clearing back to defaults with "Reset all" and uncheck of the enable application theming checkbox.

But something is not behaving as it needs to, at least on Windows builds, to clear the Customization list box back to os/DE automatic system colors. Restart still needed to clear that.

=-testing-=
2025-06-15 nightly build
Version: 25.8.0.0.beta1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 63ea7d3139e32c688dc3690997f19ad74a6f2067
CPU threads: 28; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded