[solved] LibreOffice Calc sheet tabs too small

percivjr · 2016-09-12 21:07:53

I installed LibreOffice Version: 4.3.3.2 from the repository and noticed that sheet tabs at the bottom of the screen were far too small.

Googling came up with this parameter:
GtkScrollbar ::slider-width

in file:
/usr/share/themes/Bunsen/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

(I'm using the Bunsen theme).

I found the line commented out with the reason "Huh, Shimmer Project? This property isn't in the Reference Manual".

For me, un-commenting the line and changing the value to 17 did the trick.

No doubt one day I'll find out why the line was commented out.

Hope this helps somebody.

Last edited by percivjr (2016-09-13 19:33:17)

lcafiero · 2016-09-13 00:38:47

Thanks and great tip, percivjr! I went ahead and fixed mine.

percivjr wrote:

Googling came up with this parameter:
GtkScrollbar ::slider-width
in file:
/usr/share/themes/Bunsen/gtk-2.0
(I'm using the Bunsen theme).

Just to be clear, I fixed this file to make it work:

/usr/share/themes/Bunsen/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

Is that the file you intended? Also, I'm running Bunsen-Blackish, so instead of changing the file in .../themes/Bunsen/... I changed it in .../themes/Bunsen-Blackish/... -- I know this makes me Captain Obvious, but still just pointing that out just in case it's not clear that you have to modify the file in whichever theme you're using.

Thanks again.

vasa1 · 2016-09-13 01:42:19

That's quite an old version of LibreOffice!

Newer versions have the tabs in a row by themselves meaning that the height of the tabs is no longer related to the dimensions of the scrollbar. Oh, and LibreOffice has gone gtk3 recently though you can force gtk2 by launching Calc, for example, like this:

SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk libreoffice --calc

Another thing ... I prefer slim scrollbars and so when I was using LibreOffice which linked the tab height with the scrollbar dimensions, I made a separate theme, identical to my usual theme except for the scrollbar tweak, and launched only LibreOffice with that theme.

Last edited by vasa1 (2016-09-13 01:59:16)

lcafiero · 2016-09-13 02:46:08

vasa1 wrote:

That's quite an old version of LibreOffice!

It is. However, it looks like it's the latest version that comes with BunsenLabs, and I just checked for updates in the Synaptic Package Manager and found nothing.

nore · 2016-09-13 03:07:36

You can also uncomment and increase trough-border value (two lines below slider-width). Trough-border adds space around the slider bar, if you prefer a slim slider.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-09-13 06:27:56

lcafiero wrote:

vasa1 wrote:
That's quite an old version of LibreOffice!
It is. However, it looks like it's the latest version that comes with BunsenLabs, and I just checked for updates in the Synaptic Package Manager and found nothing.

BunsenLabs is based on Debian stable.

In Debian parlance, stable means fixed,unchanging, rather than the popular interpretation of reliable,uncrashable.

The package versions are not incremented during the lifetime of the stable release with very few exceptions (most notably firefox and chromium), this is by design and is precisely why Debian is so reliable and uncrashable -- the software is well tested and largely bug-free because no new features/bugs are allowed.

Newer versions of LibreOffice (and other programs) are available from the jessie-backports repositories.

https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

percivjr · 2016-09-13 19:34:22

lcafiero wrote:

/usr/share/themes/Bunsen/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
Is that the file you intended?

Yes, thanks for pointing that out. I've updated the original post.

lcafiero · 2016-09-13 21:52:31

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

lcafiero wrote:
vasa1 wrote:
That's quite an old version of LibreOffice!
It is. However, it looks like it's the latest version that comes with BunsenLabs, and I just checked for updates in the Synaptic Package Manager and found nothing.
BunsenLabs is based on Debian stable.
In Debian parlance, stable means fixed,unchanging, rather than the popular interpretation of reliable,uncrashable.

Just for the record, my response was not a complaint, but rather an observation. I use the current available LibreOffice for a wide variety of things, and it works just great.

That said: Thank you, Head_on_a_Stick, for that clarification!

Last edited by lcafiero (2016-09-13 21:53:10)

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