Bug 166063 - Background of sheets (in Writer and Calc) is black instead of white
Summary: Background of sheets (in Writer and Calc) is black instead of white
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: framework (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.2.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Reported: 2025-04-07 09:41 UTC by sommerluk
Modified: 2025-06-19 20:46 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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screenshot.png (57.62 KB, image/png)
2025-04-07 09:41 UTC, sommerluk
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after_office_2003_blue_restart.png (165.00 KB, image/png)
2025-04-08 09:42 UTC, sommerluk
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after_automatic_restart.png (159.18 KB, image/png)
2025-04-08 09:43 UTC, sommerluk
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Description sommerluk 2025-04-07 09:41:21 UTC
Created attachment 200194 [details]
screenshot.png

Since the update to 25.2.2.2 suddenly the background of documents has become dark gray, almost black. See screenshot. Given that text with the color "Automatic" continues to be displayed as black, the text is barely visible.

That happens both in Writer and in Calc.

Note: Here is a workaround: In the settings->appearence, as color scheme, you can change from "System" to "Bright", which leaves the UI elements still dark (!), but at least the document background becomes white, so text is legible now.

However, the color scheme code seems to be broken, and an almost black background for Writer and Calc is a terrible default value.

Version: 25.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 520(Build:2)
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: de-DE
Ubuntu package version: 4:25.2.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~lo3
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2025-04-07 22:20:33 UTC
Please test
-  selecting a theme other than “Automatic”, apply it and switch back to “Automatic”.
Comment 2 sommerluk 2025-04-08 09:42:55 UTC
Created attachment 200223 [details]
after_office_2003_blue_restart.png
Comment 3 sommerluk 2025-04-08 09:43:13 UTC
Created attachment 200224 [details]
after_automatic_restart.png
Comment 4 sommerluk 2025-04-08 09:43:32 UTC
1.) Switch to Tools->Options->LibreOffice->Appearance->LibreOffice Themes->Office 2003 Blue
2.) Restart
3.) Screenshot, see after_office_2003_blue_restart.png
4.) Switch to Tools->Options->LibreOffice->Appearance->LibreOffice Themes->Automatic
5.) Restart
6.) Screenshot, see after_automatic_restart.png
Comment 5 VBB 2025-05-20 08:13:33 UTC
Probably a duplicate of https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164838? It doesn't seem to be specific to flatpak build.
Comment 6 sommerluk 2025-06-19 20:46:51 UTC
I've just made a fresh installation of Opensuse Tumbleweed, chose the dark theme in KDE. When starting LibreOffice for the very first time, same problem with dark page background. (Version 25.2.3.2)