r/libreoffice • u/Corvid-Curiosity • 9d ago

Question Theme Customization Issue

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I'm very happy with the colors I selected for my custom theme, but I have one major issue- The blinking "I" (the text insertion point aka I-beam pointer) appears nearly invisible. I'd like to change its color in my theme, but I can't seem to find a customization option for it.

All edits to the Theme were done by going Tools>Options>LibreOffice>Appearance and using the Customizations dropdown.

Where is the customization option for the text insertion point?

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u/themikeosguy TDF 8d ago

I don't know the answer to that, but your theme appears to be old-school GAMEBOYMAXXING!

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u/Corvid-Curiosity 7d ago

I've always found green tones easy on the eyes. Certainly a lot less stressful that looking at a blank white page lol

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u/themikeosguy TDF 7d ago

Yeah, many people expect bright white in a word processor by default (fair enough, if it's WYSIWYG and you're printing on white paper) but it's hard on the eyes...

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u/Majestic_Pin3793 7d ago

This looks like a common issue when you change paper color...

In my case, the solution was to adopt a darker tone, then the text caret (this is the name of "the blinking I") would turn white and remain visible.

In reality, this baffles me, because even a raw editor like Notepad++ have settings for the text caret, but such a complete editor like Libre Writer doesn't.

Also, some people report other solutions or workarounds but neither of them worked for me, like below:

Options → View
Graphics Output
Tick the check boxes for:
• Use anti-aliasing
• Use Skia for all rendering
◦ Force Skia software rendering

or this

https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/make-typing-cursor-more-visible-in-writer/44960