[xmonad] Issue 141 in xmonad: OpenOffice.org doesn't use GTK or honor any GTK settings

[Tobias Hammerschmidt]

codesite-noreply at google.com schrieb:
> Issue 141: OpenOffice.org doesn't use GTK or honor any GTK settings
> http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=141
> 
> New issue report by brian.mbb:
> What steps will reproduce the problem?
> 1. Start any component of OpenOffice.org in xmonad
> 2.
> 3.
> 
> What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
> Under Xfce4 (even with xmonad as a window manager), OO.o looks like a
> normal GTK application; the icons, font sizes and style is all honored.
> With xmonad, however, it looks quite horrendous and nothing at all like
> what it should.

You need to set the environment variable OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP to gnome, e.g. add an 
entry "export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome" to your .xinitrc.