Make OpenOffice.Org Look Good in Minimal WMs

Posted on March 31st, 2008 by nathan

If you’re using a minimal window manager (Fluxbox, IceWM) you may have noticed that OpenOffice looks like crap. You’re getting plain, unthemed widgets that look archaic compared to todays slick QT/GTK themes. Luckily, the solution is quite simple. For a local solution (just your user account) open up your ~/.bash_profile file and enter the following:

export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=GNOME

Logout, log back in, open up OOo, and it should encased in GTK beautification.

To make this global, simply add that line to /etc/profile.

Enjoy!

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Filed under: Minimal WMs, OpenOffice.Org

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One Response to “Make OpenOffice.Org Look Good in Minimal WMs”

  1. Mr. Jan Wells, on June 1st, 2008 at 8:07 pm Said:

    Holy cow. As easy as that: export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=GNOME !!
    Goodness gracious already. Perfect (even if I set I to KDE for the moment). Perhaps, I wondered, I’ll have to say bye, bye to icewm. Not for a while, I guess. Thanks for posting the solution.

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