Change Text Selection colour/border

[Riquez]

How can I change the text selection highlight colour & remove the dark border?

It looks like a design formatting effect rather than just text selection to my eyes, so I’d rather just have a generic light colour without a border when I select text.

Thanks.

[ajlittoz]

Highlight properties are retrieved from the OS (you didn’t mention it, nor your LO version).

Customize the highlight attributes in the OS if it allows to do so.

[Riquez]

Thanks. Sorry, I’m being particularly absent minded today.
Manjaro Linux 21.1, LibreOffice 7.1.5-2

I’m fairly new to Linux, I havent noticed such an option, but I’ll search online!

[ajlittoz]

Since you are new to Linux, you must know that GUI’s are not imposed on you. You can choose between different Desktop environments, the most common being GNOME and KDE but there dozens others from simple tiling window managers to very complex and sophisticated ones (among these, GNOME and KDE). I don’t know which one Manjaro installs by default. You should have in some menu something like System Configuration, Configuration Panel or Configuration Center. Explore to find the highlight colour (under KDE, open System Configuration, Look & Feel, Colours and select Selection background after requesting customization of the current theme).

[randy]

@ajlittoz

Highlight properties are retrieved from the OS

The highlighting in LO looks nothing like the highlighting I see anywhere else in my OS (Windows 10).

[Smurgejones]

There is an option in the Expert Configuration to use a solid-fill for selected text instead of LibreOffice’s rectangle-with-border.

Here’s how you change to a solid selection background:

• From the menu bar, select Tools, Options… (default shortcut Alt-F12)
• Then from the list on the left select LibreOffice, Advanced
• Then press the Open Expert Configuration button
• In the new dialog that appears, type the word ‘Transparent’ in the slim text box and press Search
• A number of suggested results will appear. Look for ‘org.openoffice.Office.Common’, and there will be a match labelled ‘Drawinglayer’ - look to the right of this item and you will see ‘TransparentSelection boolean true’.
• Double click the word ‘true’ next to ‘boolean’ and it will change to ‘false’.
• Click OK to dismiss this dialog.
• Click OK to dismiss the Options dialog and return to your document.

You might need to restart Writer. For me, the changes took effect immediately:

If you’d like to change this option back to the outline style, repeat the steps and change ‘TransparentSelection boolean false’ back to ‘true’ by double clicking the word ‘false’.