inconsistent font settings in xfce4 components

André Miranda andre42m at gmail.com
Thu Apr 11 18:09:29 CEST 2019


I noticed a similar behavior (font/theme settings ignored) after login when
using LightDM.
I didn't investigate this properly, just been using SDDM instead and the
problem is gone.
Maybe it's worth a try.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 12:17 PM Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 11, André Miranda wrote:
>
> > You can query the current value with xfconf-query -c xsettings -p
> /Gtk/FontName
> > and set it with something like xfconf-query -c xsettings -p
> /Gtk/FontName -s
> > "Droid Sans 10".
>
> Thanks, I did not know that.
>
> > Did you try another font?
>
> I tried your example, it does not change the fontsize in the panel or
> Thunar.
>
> > Did you try another theme?
>
> That does not change anything either.
>
> > The Custom DPI setting (at Appearance -> Font) has changed?
>
> I tried that one too. It has no effect for the panel or Thunar.
>
>
> Well, something crashed or behaved strange. During that misbehavior the
> claws-mail windows became orphaned, at least that one window with a
> reply to your mail. At some point claws disappeared, that orphaned
> window was shown as "Unnamed Window" in the panel. Now the font size in
> the panel was large as expected. Not sure what that is, it occoured two
> or three times earlier this week.
>
> Also the panel settings did not start properly from the xfce4-settings
> window.
> The settings window did not react to input. Looks like the
> xfce4-settings process can not talk to the panel-settings process. There
> is definitly something broken on my side. I will try to figure out what
> it is.
>
> Olaf
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