Really dark drop down lists?

Sun Jan 28 08:13:56 UTC 2018

On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 17:34:56 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
>I'm not sure when this happened or what I can do about it

"Theme

LibreOffice includes support for GTK+ and Qt theme integration. See
also Uniform look for Qt and GTK applications.

Toolkit libraries are checked in the following order:

gtk3 > gtk > kde4 > generic

To force the use of a certain VCL UI interface, use one of the
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen, SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=kde4, SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk or
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 environment variables. These variables can be
uncommented in /etc/profile.d/libreoffice-fresh.sh
or /etc/profile.d/libreoffice-still.sh." -
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LibreOffice#Theme

IOW you most likely need to edit something
in /usr/share/themes/name_of_the_theme/gtk-3.0/*css .