[SOLVED] Tiny UI font; missing libreoffice-gtk3 in LO 24.2.5?

[r3cook]

Hi,
On LinuxMint 21.3 (Ubuntu 22.4 LTS) with a 2K HiDPI display, i installed LO 24.2.5 because of Google drive access.
The former LO v7 from Ubuntu Jammy repos couldn’t access Google drive with error “invalid device”.

LO starts with tiny UI font and says in About:

User interface: UI render: default; VCL: x11

Btw, i also read about the removal of UI scaling which reads plausible.

The usual tip to prefix the command line with

SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 /opt/libreoffice24.2/program/soffice --writer

doesn’t change that one bit.

In the distributed set of deb packages i couldn’t see anything specifically about gtk3.
The version-matching Ubuntu package demands a newer libc6, which i do not dare.
Is there a TDF build of libreoffice-gtk3?
Or any other ideas to solve this?

–
regards,
– r3cook

[fpy]

@r3cook

prefix

make sure you shell is ok :
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 env | grep VCL

this one should be self sufficient : https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/24.2.5/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_24.2.5_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz

[r3cook]

Hi fpy,
shell (/bin/bash) seems ok:

$ SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 env | grep VCL
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3

and that was the package set i installed.
On compare, the two packages share the same filename and same content.

If this does contain the Gtk3 VCLPLUGIN, i can’t seem to use it, apparently.

–
regards,
– r3cook

[fpy]

@r3cook

use it

depending how far you want to push the fun, you can give a go with strace and see where it fails.

and depending on your desktop env, you may want to try qt or kf :

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[r3cook]

Hi,
i did try

$ export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3
$ env | grep VCL
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3
$ strace libreoffice24.2 --writer 2>&1 |less

but it’s output contained neither gtk nor VCL, and Writer again showed VCL: x11.
Same with qtor kf.

But then i returned to the package set, noticed
libobasis24.2-gnome-integration
(and a similar kde one) and installed that.
On next start, the UI font was the GTK system font in normal size, as well as About saying VCL: gtk3.
Problem solved.

The remaining problem
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx
during the start was a direct result of the as yet missing Java JRE, and disappeared after it’s installation.

Many thanks for your help in jogging my brain! 8^)
–
regards,
– r3cook