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I installed WPS Office for the first time. It is amazing, so much so that I wonder if there is some hidden adware that I can't remove (e.g., what is Docer).

That said, my issue is that the background on WPS Spreadsheets for all sheets is this weird brown color. I've tried changing the Page Layout > Themes and Colors. I've also tried to Format Cells. But there does not appear (or I can't find) a way to change the default background color. Is there a way?

Here is what it looks like.

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As an addendum to Roel Brook's answer, I found that you can actually change this setting in the binary file. To do this open terminal and enter 

sudo $EDITOR `where et`

Then look for:

${gInstallPath}/office6/${gApp} -style gtk+ ${gOptExt} ${gOpt} "$@"

and change it to:

${gInstallPath}/office6/${gApp} -style motif ${gOptExt} ${gOpt} "$@"

Then save and close. Now the changes will be persistent.

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Dan Temkin
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GTK theme have to be set with environment variable and parameter

env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc ./et -style gtk+

Can you show a way to input this parameter to the application to be persistent? >>I'm using KDE Neon 5.14 User Edition (Based Ubuntu 18.04)

<p>Thanks a Lot man</p>

--UPDATE--

Knowing about this tip that intika said, a precious one by the way, I searched a little more to How to make this line as permanent. So, its very simple.

Right Click > Edit Application > Application tab > Run or Command box-form and add "Exec="on begining.

For exemple:

Exec=env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc /usr/bin/et -style gtk+

This solved my problem. Take care to do not put this command to run in a terminal on advanced settings, or It will open terminal together (unless you want it)

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GTK theme have to be set with environment variable and parameter

env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc ./et -style gtk+
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As with most QT applications, WPS accepts "-style".

For example: et -style motif

This will ignore the current desktop theme, and run WPS with that specific QT theme.

Roel Brook
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Turns out this is caused by an interaction with the Arc Dark theme (it does not occur with Arc or Arc Darker). I posted an issue on Horst's GitHub page.

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I had the same problem, but the solution above given by Dan (which seems to be the right one as it is referenced in every forum I came across) wasn't working for me. But I found another fix which DOES work, although not permanently.

I am using a KDE neon build, and the solution below worked for me:

WPS_NO_KDE_NATIVE_DIALOG=1 et -style gtk+

This is for spreadsheets. For writer and presentation, substitute "et" with "wps" and "wpp" respectively.

Solution attributed to user "raddison" on KDE Forum, under the "WPS Office not working" topic.

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I fixed this problem using flatpak version:

flatpak install com.wps.Office

Then you need to edit Qt config file:

nano ~/.var/app/com.wps.Office/config/Trolltech.conf

Add this lines:

[Qt]
style=Plastique

You could also use other Qt styles inclueded in the default installation: CDE, Cleanlooks, GTK, Motif, Plastique, Windows

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