On Sunday 09 December 2018, Felmon Davis wrote:
> folks,
>
> thanks for the tips and ideas! frankly, you are great.
>
> I constructed a smarter google search string and found this solution:
>
> export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0
>
> for persistence across boots, some say to put this line in:
>
> /etc/profile.d/gnome-qt.sh
>
> I haven't tested that yet.
>
> the OpenOffice problem is not fixed (menu items invisible except with
> mouse-over). one rabbit-hole at a time.
>
> f.

Are you running the latest version of Openoffice.
It seems to be a shared bug between Libreoffice (which was resolved) and OO.
Apparently their theme engine is messed.

See if there's an update to OO.

Kate