Menu bar menu options are small and do not reflect system font changes

[Tony]

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10

The individual menu bar menu options are very small. I am not talking about the menu bar title or the menu names e.g. "File" "Edit" etc., I'm talking about the individual options within each menu. I expect the text of the menu items to be the same as other UI text, e.g. the Ubuntu Default font.

Also, I would expect the size of the menu options text to change with the setting System Settings > Universal Access > Large Text but it does not.

See attached image for two screen shots, one with Large Text disabled and one with it enabled. The text "Contents", "Universal Access", and "Quit" is the text that I expect to be bigger, and that I expect to get larger when enabling the Large Text setting.

Further, the size of the menu item text is not affected by any of the font settings exposed by the app "ubuntu-tweak" which lets you change the default font, etc.

This problem exists whether the menu bar is pinned to the top of the screen, or to the title bar of the individual application windows.

I think this is a bug in xorg, but I am not sure.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 15.10
Release: 15.10

apt-cache policy xorg
xorg:
  Installed: 1:7.7+7ubuntu4
  Candidate: 1:7.7+7ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 1:7.7+7ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Tony, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

Could you please run the following command once from a terminal as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:
apport-collect -p xorg 1538823

Please ensure you have the package xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information.

When reporting xorg related bugs in the future, please do so via the above method. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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