Appearance

Customise application appearance independent of the desktop environment theme.

LibreOffice Themes

Selects the theme scheme you want to use from the drop-down list.

• Automatic: the application and document appearance depends on the desktop environment theme. If the desktop environment is using a light theme then light colours are used and vice versa.

• Light: appearance means light theme colours are used.

• Dark: appearance means dark theme colours are used.

• Custom theme name: use appearance settings from the custom theme.

Add more themes

Themes are also available as extensions. To install an extension theme, click on the Add more themes button next to the themes drop-down.

Enable application theming

Enable application theming with extension themes.

Use white document background

Overrides the theme’s document background colour, setting it to white.

Use bitmap for application background (for Writer only)

Select a bitmap to display as application background.

• Stretched: The image is stretched to fill the area of the background.

• Tiled: the image is tiled to fill the area of the background.

Customisations

Items

Select the item to customise colour.

Colour

Select the colour of the item.

The colour settings for "Visited links" and "Unvisited links" only apply to documents created after the settings are applied.

Show in Document

Display the colour choice in the document immediately. This option is available for a subset of items.

Reset All

Resets the colour customisations to the Automatic theme.

Icons

Icon themes

Select an icon theme for the application.

Add more icons

Icons are also available as extensions. To install an extension icon set, click on the Add more icons button next to the icons drop-down.

Toolbar

Specifies the display size of toolbar icons.

Sidebar

Specifies the display size of sidebar icons.

Notebookbar

Specifies the display size of notebook bar icons.

Dialogue boxes

Select the position of the dialogue box tabs.