LibreOffice: white menu fonts and splash glitch

[adriaandegroot]

• libreoffice -- [ ] menu fonts are white -- [ ] washed-out splash screen

Starting LibreOffice produces a weird splash screen, which is washed-out. In this screenshot, red arrow (1) points at the LO splash / banner, which is washed-out and mostly transparent, in front of KInfoCenter (2).

Here is the same situation, on a KDE Slimbook (x86_64, skylake graphics), (1) points to the splash / banner, (2) points to the KInfocenter application behind the splash.

Once started, LO looks normal (er, for an application I start maybe twice a year) to me.

[adriaandegroot]

Here is a normal-looking (?) LO window on the pinebook.

[subdiff]

This is a similar problem as to how it was for the application windows of Writer and so on before we installed the suitable libreoffice-gtk3 package.

I assume the splash screen just does not already use this backend package to render. Not sure how we can force it to do this.

A workaround is to deactivate the splash altogether by launching LibreOffice with the --nologo flag or change the Logo value from 1 to 0 in /etc/libreoffice/sofficerc.

[star-buck]

latest img: I am getting the white fonts when opening a menu again

[star-buck]

update: after another restart, the fonts are normal again... looking into if I am able to reproduce this somehow.

[bhush9]

Just as note: I can't reproduce the white fonts in newer bionic images. Can someone confirm?

[star-buck]

works here