Help with Libreoffce icons

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I just installed openSuse 12.3 for the first time. I am really liking it as a new Linux user. The one thing that I can’t stand is the icons in Libreoffice. Can someone tell me how to change these to some normal icons? They were this way before I changed the system theme so it is not that. Thanks in advance.

Screenshothttp://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x309/truncellitoj/libre.png

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fathead al wrote:
>
> I just installed openSuse 12.3 for the first time. I am really liking
> it as a new Linux user. The one thing that I can’t stand is the icons
> in Libreoffice. Can someone tell me how to change these to some normal
> icons? They were this way before I changed the system theme so it is
> not that. Thanks in advance.
>
> Screenshot[image:
> http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x309/truncellitoj/libre.png]
>
>

check what icon theme you have using below command. The ‘i’ indicates
installed status.

$zypper se libreoffice-icon*
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…


S | Name                              | Summary                     |
Type
--+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------
| libreoffice-icon-theme-crystal    | Crystal LibreOffice Icon -> |
package
| libreoffice-icon-theme-galaxy     | Galaxy LibreOffice Icon T-> |
package
| libreoffice-icon-theme-hicontrast | Hicontrast LibreOffice Ic-> |
package
| libreoffice-icon-theme-oxygen     | Oxygen LibreOffice Icon T-> |
package
i | libreoffice-icon-theme-tango      | Tango LibreOffice Icon Th-> |
package
| libreoffice-icon-themes           | Icon Themes for LibreOffice |
srcpackage
| libreoffice-icon-themes-prebuilt  | Prebuilt LibreOffice Icon-> |
package
$

Then install one and simultaneously remove the installed one like this.
After that you can restart Libreoffice to see the changes


$sudo zypper rm libreoffice-icon-theme-tango +libreoffice-icon-theme-oxygen
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Package '+libreoffice-icon-theme-oxygen' is not installed.
Resolving package dependencies...

The following NEW package is going to be installed:
libreoffice-icon-theme-oxygen

The following package is going to be REMOVED:
libreoffice-icon-theme-tango

1 new package to install, 1 to remove.
Overall download size: 1.9 MiB. After the operation, additional 512.9
KiB will
be used.
Continue? [y/n/p/?] (y):

–
GNOME 3.6.2
openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop

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I did as you said and ended up with this.

S | Name | Summary | Type
–±----------------------------------±------------------------------------------------±-------
| libreoffice-icon-theme-crystal | Crystal LibreOffice Icon Theme (KDE3 default) | package
| libreoffice-icon-theme-galaxy | Galaxy LibreOffice Icon Theme (OOo-3.x default) | package
| libreoffice-icon-theme-hicontrast | Hicontrast LibreOffice Icon Theme | package
i | libreoffice-icon-theme-oxygen | Oxygen LibreOffice Icon Theme (KDE4 default) | package
| libreoffice-icon-theme-tango | Tango LibreOffice Icon Theme (GNOME default) | package
| libreoffice-icon-themes-prebuilt | Prebuilt LibreOffice Icon Themes | package

So the oxygen icon theme is installed but the icons are still stuck on the high contrast. I also unchecked the box in libreoffice to auto detect high contrast themes. Any other ideas?

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Options----Libre-Office-----View or Display

I´m here in German:
Extra-----Optionen------Libre-Office------Ansicht----Symbolstil

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fathead al wrote:
>
> I did as you said and ended up with this.
>
> S | Name | Summary
> | Type
> --±----------------------------------±------------------------------------------------±-------
> | libreoffice-icon-theme-crystal | Crystal LibreOffice Icon Theme
> (KDE3 default) | package
> | libreoffice-icon-theme-galaxy | Galaxy LibreOffice Icon Theme
> (OOo-3.x default) | package
> | libreoffice-icon-theme-hicontrast | Hicontrast LibreOffice Icon
> Theme | package
> i | libreoffice-icon-theme-oxygen | Oxygen LibreOffice Icon Theme
> (KDE4 default) | package
> | libreoffice-icon-theme-tango | Tango LibreOffice Icon Theme
> (GNOME default) | package
> | libreoffice-icon-themes-prebuilt | Prebuilt LibreOffice Icon Themes
> | package
>
> So the oxygen icon theme is installed but the icons are still stuck on
> the high contrast. I also unchecked the box in libreoffice to auto
> detect high contrast themes. Any other ideas?
>
>
You have followed the first step in my earlier post and searched for
icons you have on your machine. You probably didn’t go through second
part of my earlier post.

Just remove(existing) and install(new set) and restart libreoffice to
see new set as described earlier. Remove oxygena and install crystal to
try crystal icon pack. Similarly you can try the rest of them. The rm in
below command tells zypper(software manager) to remove stuff. The “+” in
the command tells zypper to install stuff

sudo zypper rm libreoffice-icon-theme-oxygen
+libreoffice-icon-theme-oxygen

–
GNOME 3.6.2
openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop

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This is the High Contrast icon set in Libreoffice.

To change simply go to

Tools > Options > Libreoffice > View

and under icon size and style choose one of the alternative installed themes.

If you are using KDE then the best choice (imo) would be Oxygen

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This worked. I can’t believe I missed that. Danke Schon