Why does my Xubuntu LibreOffice look ugly?

Question

My LibreOffice installation looks like Windows 95. The rest of my Xubuntu looks okay. Why? How can I fix it?

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score 33 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 04 '16 at 11:58

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By investigating with Synaptic and trial & error method I came up with the solution:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-style-tango libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-gtk3

I have no idea why these packages were missing. I hope this helps someone.

edited Oct 04 '16 at 11:58

Zanna

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answered Apr 24 '13 at 20:33

Honza Javorek

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Tango installed well, but didn't help. Gtk and gtk3 styles were not found in repository. I also found a "human" style, which changed nothing. – Justinas Dūdėnas Apr 26 '13 at 18:24
libreoffice-gtk3 and libreoffice-gtk are from standard quantal repositories. You have to have them. I had typos in their names, @chaskes corrected it. – Honza Javorek Apr 29 '13 at 07:34
To Gentoo users: You need the gtk USE flag on when building app-office/libreoffice (or, don't explicitly have it -gtk in your make.conf, for example). – Pistos Jun 21 '18 at 14:29

Alexsoyes · Answer 2 · 2019-08-24T14:04:14.933

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sudo apt install --no-install-recommends libreoffice-gtk3

Just install what is needed to make your LibreOffice beautiful again.

Works on (X|L)Ubuntu 18.04+.

edited Aug 24 '19 at 14:04

answered Aug 22 '19 at 18:16

Alexsoyes

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Years later this is also needed on Ubuntu MATE 22.04 (at least if you're not using Snap). – kontextify Mar 11 '23 at 04:04

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 11 '18 at 06:30

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sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gtk

Also upper command line works for lubuntu (LXDE). For example with flat gtk theme 'victory' and 'papirus' icons LibreOffice looks great.

answered Apr 11 '18 at 06:30

Ia Boo

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 27 '13 at 04:41

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The minimum requirements to get the correct look for LibreOffice in Xubuntu is libreoffice-gtk along with either libreoffice-style-tango or libreoffice-style-human

answered Apr 27 '13 at 04:41

chaskes

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As of 2015 on Mint/Cinnamon, only libreoffice-gtk was needed. Human style is apparently built-in. – pileofrocks Aug 07 '15 at 04:58

Why does my Xubuntu LibreOffice look ugly?

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