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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Solution 1

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.

Solution 2

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.

Solution 3

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+.

Solution 4

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

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Comments

[Justinas Dūdėnas]

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.

[Honza Javorek]

libreoffice-gtk3 and libreoffice-gtk are from standard quantal repositories. You have to have them. I had typos in their names, @chaskes corrected it.

[pileofrocks]

As of 2015 on Mint/Cinnamon, only libreoffice-gtk was needed. Human style is apparently built-in.

[Pistos]

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).