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Openbox, OpenOffice.org & GTK

While I'm on the topic of Openbox and themes, one thing that's been bugging me is OpenOffice.org and its refusal to natively dress in a GTK theme. I know it's a trivial issue, but when you've put some effort into creating a nice theme you at least want your applications to use it.

Anyhow, after a little Googling I found a fix:

1. Install openoffice-gtk package from Ubuntu repositories with this terminal command:

sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-gtk

2. Open your personal Openbox startup file for editing:

gedit ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

or system-wide startup file:

gksudo gedit /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh

3. Add the following lines, save and exit:

#Force OpenOffice.org to use GTK theme
export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome

4. Restart Openbox.

A couple of screenshots, in case you have no idea what I'm rambling on about :)

Before applying GTK theme:

After applying GTK theme:

Update @ 14:15 23/12/2007

When using Tango icons, don't forget to install the corresponding package for OpenOffice.org:

sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-style-tango

See updated screenshot below, this time with icons :)