On Monday 10 December 2018 07:22:51 am Michael wrote:
> On Monday 10 December 2018 03:57:35 am Felmon Davis wrote:
> > I still have the disappearing menu items in OpenOffice though. let's
> > say I activate a minimized OO window; then the menu items are
> > visible. if I pass the mouse over them, they disappear as a group but
> > the individual item will appear directly under the mouse.
> >
> > it's tolerable but it would be nice to fix. as far as I can tell,
> > other things, at least things I use the most, are civilized.
>
> This is a somewhat known issue with OO.  Pop-up windows in OO are also
> about unreadable, which is solved by grabbing the  pop-up edge with the
> mouse and dragging it until it's readable.  Trial and error till you find
> what makes the  pop-up windows fully readable.
>
> It's also seemingly OS dependent, as I did different thing on CentOS to
> 'make it better' than I did on Ubuntu.
>
> To fix most of it (Ubuntu), I started with the theme Plastik and made mods
> to that.  If someone knows where themes are stored I can do a diff between
> my changes and the original Plastick.  Or just upload it.

Slip of the fingers, replace all OO above with LibreOffice very late 5x 
through 6.0.6.2.