Other Solutions for Solving Cropped Text Menu in LibreOffice

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Hello anyone.
I have silly problems using LibreOffice in Fedora KDE Spin. If I open very much text menu like Format option, top of it cropped. But if I change my panel visibility to auto hide or other options it can showed properly. I don’t want to hide my bottom panel due to my behaviour, and I lack of budget to upgrade my screen (using separate monitor or change my laptop). My question is how to solve this silly problems without hiding my panel or change my screen resolution? I use 768P and it is native resolution of my laptop.
I try to change VCL, but it not changed. Any suggestions? You can check my screenshot for get my means.

LibreOffice Writer opened in Fedora 41 KDE Spin
LibreOffice Writer opened in Fedora 41 KDE Spin1366×768 125 KB

My system info
Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.12.8-cb1.0.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8350U CPU @ 1.70GHz
Memory: 7.5 GB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 20KEA062UK
System Version: ThinkPad X280

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I think this is how it should work on low-resolution screens. With LibreOffice on GNOME I can scroll in such a list, which makes it quite easy to access any item in the menu. Is scrolling not working in KDE, or is this not a suitable solution?

You could also try the other UI variants (by accessing View → User Interface…), maybe one of them is more suitable to low-res screens.

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You can see if I hide my bottom panel it not cropped.

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In GNOME it can display properly. I using other User Interface but still can’t get other menu in text menu like text formatting, and other things.

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My problem solved with just add Plasma Session Environment Variables like this :

anifyuli@ThinkPad-X280:~$ cat $HOME/.config/plasma-workspace/env/libreoffice.sh 
#!/bin/sh
export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3

Don’t forget to add execute modifier for that scripts. Based on this thread

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