Make OpenOffice.Org Look Good in Minimal WMs
March 31st, 2008 | 1 Comment
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!
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.