LinuxMint related questions (UI messed up after style installs)

[jessica]

Background: I was training myself on how to edit templates in LO Impress. I was using LO v5 on LinuxMint 4.4.0-127. This YTube video recommended changing styles @ 3min mark → https://youtu.be/MOv2Pg1rJKU . So I downloaded some new LO styles using LinuxMint Software Manager. Then, this YTube video provided instructions on upgrading to the latest version of LO (from v5 to v6) → https://youtu.be/s6b-c9dWPp4 . So, I also upgraded to LO v6. NOW, after these upgrades, my LinuxMint OS and OS menu bar is all messed up. The menu bar is no longer the traditional LinuxMint branded and styled menu bar across the bottom of the screen and the active applications no longer display on it either. Further, the downloaded style(s) appears NOT to have just impacted LO, the style(s) appears to have impacted almost all windows and applications throughout and running on my LinuxMint instance. NOT what was expected and NOT pleased.

Q1) How do I return to the normal LinuxMint OS UI while maintaining the upgrade LO v6 version?

Q2) Lastly, in LinuxMint ‘Software Manager’, there are 9 ‘styles’ listed when you search “LibreOffice-style”. Only three styles are showed as installed on my particular system at the moment: LibreOffice-style-galaxy (which shows “(default)”), LibreOffice-style-tango, and LibreOffice-style-Mint. Can I remove one of them without removing all of them? I thought this was just a small file associated with changing the icons within your instance of LibreOffice only. That appears to NOT be the case and further, installing these has caused me great confusion, consternation, and wasted time. Not impressed.

Anyway, thanks in advance to and for any responses from LibreOffice/LinuxMint specialists out there. This has turned out to be a real ‘kick in the pants’.

(Edit: LM4 support ended April 2011; I changed tag to LM14 -AK)

[kompilainenn]

you should ask your questions on Linux Mint forum https://forums.linuxmint.com , because your problem isn’t problem of LibreOffice

[jessica]

Not according to orcus and others on the forums.linuxmint.com forum but appreciate the response.

[dajare]

Regarding your “Q1”, you can try resetting your user profile, although note the first instruction at that link, “Backup first”! You can try restarting LibO in “safe mode” first, though, to see if a fresh user profile would resolve your interface for LibreOffice itself.

You can “purge” installed packages on Linux Mint. The Mint forums are not very active (in my experience) and you would get better help with this at Unix.Stackexchange.com, and note that linux-mint is the question “tag” to look for.