I had a freshly installed Ubuntu 16.01.1 with same issues (thin fonts). The issue appeared with auto login only. Now I defined a auto-login-delay of 1 second and it works fine.
To define the delay open the file "/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf" and edit the line "autologin-user-timeout=1".
I had a freshly installed Ubuntu 16.01.1 with same issues (thin fonts). The issue appeared with auto login only. Now I defined a auto-login-delay of 1 second and it works fine. lightdm. conf" and edit the line "autologin- user-timeout= 1".
To define the delay open the file "/etc/lightdm/
$ sudo nano /etc/lightdm/ lightdm. conf
autologin- user-timeout= 1