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αxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎

This is the dark theme in @libreoffice. I kid you not.

It turns the background of the page black, but does not change the colour on font in which you type to a light (despite it being set to "automatic"), so you type black on black. Genius.

Also, uhh, the theme isn't dark, in case you weren't sure.

Screenshot of LibreOffice Writer 25.2 with the "dark" theme active. The interface is still light and no different from the default light theme, only the page background is black. The "automatic" font colour is also still black, as in the light theme.
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@axx Obviously it shouldn't look like that at all, but you didn't say anything about your setup so it's hard to say what the cause could be. Here's how it looks on LibreOffice 25.2 (have you tried restarting LibreOffice after selecting the dark mode?)

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αxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎

@libreoffice This is on Fedora Silverblue 41 with Gnome 47 and LO as a Flatpak from Flathub.

Restarting LO makes it darker, but it's not there yet (cf. attached image)

I only tried to switch my theme to a dark theme after a friend showed me the problem on their end, they are on Debian + i3 (apt install), so the issue is not uncommon.

Screenshot of LibreOffice Writer 25.2 with the dark theme active. The interface is dark is partially dark, the page background is black, but not the surrounding area. The "automatic" font colour is also still black, as in the light theme. '
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αxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎

@libreoffice Ok and now switching back to the "system" theme (without restarting LO Writer) leads to this. I should note my current Gnome system theme is "default" (light) not dark.

So it can work. But this is a mess.

Screenshot of LibreOffice Writer 25.2 with the dark theme active. The interface is dark, the page background is black, as is the surrounding area. The "automatic" font colour is also still black, as in the light theme.
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