Description: Just reinstalled Mint 22 on a new machine and re-installed LO 24.8. Noticed it is just broken... Colors do not work at all (see videos). Trying in DRAW to make a simple line and select a color, it always appears as black. When I make a PDF, it shows as the selected color. I tried also in calc. If I change the cell background color, they remain white but when I type something in them, they quickly show colored then go back to plain white when I exit the cells. Finally, graphical performance is still abysmal. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a new file 2.Try to change colors 3.See colors are not changing Actual Results: See description Expected Results: See description Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: Version: 24.8.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: bb3cfa12c7b1bf994ecc5649a80400d06cd71002 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-CA (en_CA.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded OS: Linux Mint 20.3 OS is 64bit: yes
Created attachment 198276 [details] Issue in Calc
Created attachment 198277 [details] Issue in Draw
Using the old trick of adding "env SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen" before invoking a libreofice app seems to do the trick ....
No repro with Version: 24.8.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: bb3cfa12c7b1bf994ecc5649a80400d06cd71002 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: cs-CZ (cs_CZ.UTF-8); UI: cs-CZ Calc: threaded Can you try LO from https://www.libreoffice.org/, for example https://www.libreoffice.org/download/appimage/ ?
Given the Sifr icon theme and High Contrast mode behavior in LibreOffice, looks as if your os/DE has set assistive technology enabled with a High Contrast color theme? If true can you force the DE out of HC mode and retest LibreOffice behavior with the gtk3 backend.
Hello, No I dont have any assistive technologies or anything else enabled on my desktop env or anything else of that sort... All other apps are looking normal. Previous LO installation (24.2) was looking normal (when not invoked with env SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen). I however noticed updating Libreoffice from 24.2 to 24.8 the "theme" became weird (this high contrast) with different icons... Anyways I tried the AppImage, same exact issues and looks identical (high contrast with the same icons). Lag and stutter is also worst. I also tried starting CALC with "SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 libreoffice24.8 --calc" and same thing (high contract theme and identical issues. Really the only workaround I found is to use "env SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen"... Maybe something going on with my nvidia drivers?
[Automated Action] NeedInfo-To-Unconfirmed
(In reply to lp.allard.1 from comment #6) > Hello, No I dont have any assistive technologies or anything else enabled on > my desktop env or anything else of that sort... All other apps are looking > normal. Previous LO installation (24.2) was looking normal (when not > invoked with env SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen). I however noticed updating > Libreoffice from 24.2 to 24.8 the "theme" became weird (this high contrast) > with different icons... The behavior really sounds like something related to high contrast mode. I can reproduce the described behavior in a GNOME session if I go to GNOME Settings, "Accessibility" section and enable the "High Contrast" setting there, because LibreOffice will by default adhere to that setting. It's however also possible to explicitly disable high contrast mode in LO settings: "Tools" -> "Options" -> "Accessibility" -> set "High contrast" to "Disable" instead of "Automatic" Does that help in your case? Version: 24.8.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 480(Build:2) CPU threads: 32; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-GB Debian package version: 4:24.8.4-1 Calc: threaded
> It's however also possible to explicitly disable high contrast mode in LO > settings: > "Tools" -> "Options" -> "Accessibility" -> set "High contrast" to "Disable" > instead of "Automatic" > > Does that help in your case? Yes it does! The actual performance and behavior in the spreadsheet (in calc) is totally different. For the Sifr icon theme, I have no dea how it got assign to be the default one. I am suspecting something all along in the Linux Mint desktop env was causing these issues.....
(In reply to lp.allard.1 from comment #9) > Yes it does! The actual performance and behavior in the spreadsheet (in > calc) is totally different. > > For the Sifr icon theme, I have no dea how it got assign to be the default > one. I am suspecting something all along in the Linux Mint desktop env was > causing these issues..... Thanks for the feedback. Great to hear it works as expected then. It sounds to me like there's no bug in LibreOffice then, so I'm closing this bug report accordingly.