[arch-general] OpenOffice Calc - Setting Cell Background Color does Not Display on Screen - prints OK

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> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:06 PM, David C. Rankin <
> drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Guys,
> >
> > I'm having a problem with openoffice calc. When I highlight a few cells or
> > few
> > rows and then change the background color, no color is shown on the monitor
> > for the cells. Moving the input box up/down across the rows or cells that
> > the
> > background color was set on, the color indication in the toolbar correctly
> > changes showing where the color has been set, but still no background color
> > is
> > displayed in the cells on-screen.
> >
> > Oddly, when I print the spreadsheet, the background color is correctly
> > printed?? Can some one confirm this on your install or let me know "works
> > for
> > me" so I can have some additional info before filing a bug report. Thanks.
> >
> On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 11:23 +0800, Dexter Ang wrote:
> I can confirm that I'm not seeing what you're saying. Setting the background
> color over here displays it immediately.
> Using openoffice-base 3.1.1-2
> 
> dex
> 
Please don't top-post. Anyhow, to the OP, are you using a dark theme of some sort? Openoffice has problems with not showing the correct colours if you're using some sort of non-default (Gnome) theme.