[H-GEN] xubuntu/xfce4 font problem

P Newman moetunes111 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 14:51:11 EDT 2014


On 17/06/14 09:53, Peter Robinson wrote:
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> Hi All,
> In my settings/appearance/fonts I have the font set to DejaVu Sans 
> Book 9.
> When I log on the font size is actually set to 10 (or perhaps bigger). 
> I go to settings/appearance/fonts and it's 9 as expected and I set it 
> to 8 and then back to 9 and everything is OK for that session. So the 
> system seems to be ignoring my setting on startup.
> I created another user and set the font the same way but that user 
> account doesn't have the problem.
> So it appears to be something about my user account but looking 
> through the various config files I can't see where it's going wrong.
>
> Any suggestions on what to try?
>
> Peter
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Xfce can have a problem with what's in ~/.cache at times so check what's 
in there. Are you saving the session before logging out? After changing 
the font, seeing the value that's stored in xfconf for it could be 
helpful too.
HTH


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