If you don't run KDE/GNOME the SoftMaker Office may fail to detect the GUI settings you use, for example the menu fonts will not be anti-aliased regardless of settings of fontconfig, and so on. In this case try to start TextMaker (or PlanMaker or Presentations) with one of the following two undocumented options: -gui:gnome -gui:kde for example: $ textmaker16 -gui:gnome Also, please set "Linux (system colors)" under Tools > Options > Appearance > Dialog style. To use one of these two options permanently, put the corresponding word "gnome" or "kde" to the configuration file ~/.smoffice_gui.conf (for a given user) or/and /etc/smoffice_gui.conf (system wide) References: http://forum.softmaker.de/viewtopic.php?t=11192#p51932 http://forum.softmaker.de/viewtopic.php?t=21226