OK, so, in the last few days I've reinstalled 12 Bookwork from the stable netinstall iso, and getting it configured for my needs. I chose a minimal install with standard system utils only. Followed by xorg, lxqt-core, and sddm as a login/display manager. Today I installed LibreOffice from the official repos via apt. As soon as I fired up Writer, the UI was just way too tiny to be usable. I could read it if I squinted, and even despite me having 20/5 vision, I knew it wouldnt be optimal for daily usage. No matter what settings I changed, I couldnt get the UI/toolbars/etc to be big enough for me to consider it acceptable. So I purged libreoffice with apt, then found this page:
https://wiki.debian.org/LibreOffice
Specifically, the section titled "using the project's own deb packages". I figured the Debian maintainers wouldnt even mention this as an alternate install approach, if it werent safe/would break the system/etc.
I then went to this page:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/do ... lang=en-US
And downloaded the Linux 64 bit deb file, along with the Linux 64 bit deb offline help file. After unpacking them, it was just a simple "sudo apt install ./*.deb", first for the main program, then the offline help. After launching Writer again, I noticed everything was scaled appropriately, needing no obvious manual configuration changes by me. As is, it's usable "out of the box".
What could be the difference between the Debian repo version and the deb files version? Specifically relating to why one has horrible scaling and the other doesnt. I'd like to try the official repo version again, for update support, but with the UI being so small, it's just not usable as-is.
Edit: The LO version I used from the official website is v7.6.6.
https://wiki.debian.org/LibreOffice
Specifically, the section titled "using the project's own deb packages". I figured the Debian maintainers wouldnt even mention this as an alternate install approach, if it werent safe/would break the system/etc.
I then went to this page:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/do ... lang=en-US
And downloaded the Linux 64 bit deb file, along with the Linux 64 bit deb offline help file. After unpacking them, it was just a simple "sudo apt install ./*.deb", first for the main program, then the offline help. After launching Writer again, I noticed everything was scaled appropriately, needing no obvious manual configuration changes by me. As is, it's usable "out of the box".
What could be the difference between the Debian repo version and the deb files version? Specifically relating to why one has horrible scaling and the other doesnt. I'd like to try the official repo version again, for update support, but with the UI being so small, it's just not usable as-is.
Edit: The LO version I used from the official website is v7.6.6.
Statistics: Posted by Enigma83 — 2024-04-13 05:57 — Replies 14 — Views 216