To remove the text markers on each page, uncheck Text boundaries, below in this list.To remove the shadow/border around the page (and make it look like the second screenshot in this post): Tools→Options→LibreOffice→Personnalization and uncheck Shadow, somewhere in the list of colors (you can also define another color, btw).The only reason they are visible is to give an idea of how everything looks. Note that you can also hide the main toolbar and Manjaro/Xfce’s taskbar.
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And so, Writer can look much cleaner and, imo, much better: You can also use many keyboard shortcuts, and add you own if you need it. What’s great is taht you can easily (un)hide all of that (even margins and page breaks) without actually getting rid of them. Also, since I don’t write for print (I write ebooks), I don’t care at all about ‘pages’ - margins and borders having no utility for me, I just need an infinite scroll of styled text. I just want to see them when I need them, or better yet: I’d rather not see them at all and use keyboard shortcuts instead. I don’t like having my screen filled with buttons, menus, panels, I find them distracting. Just don’t close this window yet, you may want to tweak two more settings. So, as soon as I turn off text markers and the shadow around the page, Writer really starts to look like a text editor: clean and uncluttered. I make it the same color as the document itself. Application background, aka Writer’s empty space around your document.If you select any other background color you must manually change the font color. Automatic will make your text adapt to teh background color but only when using black and the darker grays. But you can use any color you fancy, you’ll just have to remember to also define a specific color for your text that will work well with whatever background color you want to use: If you use black or one of the darker gray, your text color should automaticaly switch to a lighter color. Document background, aka the color of your page.So, to make your document dark theme-friendly, go to Tools→Options→Application Colors. Here is a print preview in Writer of my test ‘dark’ document:Īnd the same test document opened in the lastest Word/MS Office 365 on macOS: As far as I can tell, it only changes the way you see the document not the document itself - since I never print, I have not tested it thoroughly, though. If you’re wondering: using the following method should not impact your ability to print or share your documents with other people. What about the document itself? Make the document dark themed Great! Writer now has a(n almost complete) dark UI. One thing I could not get to use a dark theme at all, even under Linux, is the ‘Comments’ window/panel thingy that remains blindingly white. If you have trouble seeing your icons after activating this theme (dark icons over a gray background may not be that great), go to Tools→Options→LibreOffice→View and select another Icon Style - anything ‘dark’ should feel better.
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To turn it on, go to Tools→Options→LibreOffice→Personnalization, check the Preinstalled Theme and select the gray theme.
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It’s more of “grayish theme” than something dark, but that’s better than nothing when I must use LibreOffice under Windows or macOS - which is not often as I’d rather use MS Word, which has a great dark theme support (see ‘More info’, below). And every time I tested it on Windows or Linux, part of the toolbars remained light :/īut, teh great news is that things are much better under Linux, where LibreOffice should recognize your window manager’s dark theme and use it by default, almost everywhere - as far as I can tell, the only part of Writer that doesn’t switch to dark is the ‘Comments’ panel/thingy that will stay blindingly white. Worse, under Windows or macOS, many panels simply won’t LO’s dark theme at all, they stay light.
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We’re forced to manually setup LO own’s “dark theme” which is more gray than dark and which I find quite mediocre, imo. Support is the worst for Windows and macOS where LibreOffice doesn’t seem to recognize either of their dark themes, which doesn’t make for a great experience. The way it handles a dark theme is not the same wether you’re using Windows, macOS, or Linux. It can also look much less cluttered (see ‘Hide the clutter’, below). LibreOffice Writer can use a dark theme - both for its UI and for the document itself: