<SOLVED - eventually) Removing the Light Blue Tool Tip colour in OOo

[williamj]

Gooday All

In OOo writer and I imagine it is in all OOo sections there is a light blue Tool Tips background with white fonts. It is almost impossible to read especially for an old bloke like me. You cannot change it in Tools/Options/Color and I see by Googling that others have asked the question and there has been no answer except that it is tied in with KDE4 Configure your Desktop\Look and feel\Appearance\Colors. Well I have flanneled around in that part of KDE4 for some time without the fix.

Anyone with a clue please let me know soonest as it is most frustrating. A black font would fix the problem.

williamj

[Rudge]

Humor me and try this.

Open "Configure Your desktop/ Look and Feel/ Appearance/ Fonts" Change "Use anti-aliasing" from whatever it is, to something else, and then back to what it was. In other words, don't change anything, just activate the "Apply" button at the bottom of the screen.

Click on "Apply" and restart the OOo application.

Just do it and see if that helps.

[williamj]

Gooday rudge and others

Many thanks for the try but no luck. Gave it a go a number of times. Personally I find OOo a pain, might be forced to try abiword. But how do I get rid of that insipid light blue colour in all applications when you hover the cursor over the icons? Time is the enemy and when I get around to it I shall try harder buit in the meantime hope someone comes up with a definitive answer. Many thanks
williamj

That is what I said but after rebooting the insipid blue came up with black font. A very unscientific fix but it works. Many thanks rudge.
williamj

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Back again

Well that works but only for the current session . The fix is: Configure your desktop/look and feel/colors/ - here click on 'Apply colors to non KDE4 applications' make sure it is un-clicked and you have a permanent fix. It doies not remove the insipid blue but it does give black fonts, and that is a fix.

williamJ