Font too big in some thunar window

[Jarno Suni]

Binary package hint: thunar

Xubuntu 8.04, thunar 0.9.0. Isn't the font in all thunar windows supposed to be same? I don't know how can did I do it, but I got some thunar window that has bigger font size. See the screenshot attachment.

[jahoomax (dyb-spam2)]

Some font size problems in thunar here as well.
Seems it does not act according to DPI- and Font-Settings from XFCE

[Sébastien Launay (sebastien-launay)]

Same bug with same version (Xubuntu 8.04, XFCE 4.4.2, thunar 0.9.0).

I found a work around :
Create a .gtkrc-2.0 file in your home directory with the following content:
===== start ======
style "fonttweak"
{
font_name = "Sans 8"
}

widget_class "*Thunar*View*" style "fonttweak"
===== end ======

You change chage "Sans 8" for adapting to your needs.

[Cefn (6-launchpad-net-cefn-com)]

I can confirm the same bug, and it's repeatable.

I log into Xubuntu which loads normally, then change my desktop to include an external monitor using this command...
xrandr --output VGA --mode 1440x900_60.00 --above LVDS
...where LVDS is a 1280x768 builtin LCD on my laptop, and the VGA is attached to an Acer AL1916W widescreen monitor.

Subsequently a launch of Thunar will create windows with huge fonts, requiring the above gtk config workaround to restore the fontsize.

It's possible that it is somehow related to very confused xfce desktop values, as revealed in this display-dimensioning bug which I reported following the same xrandr invocation...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xubuntu-meta/+bug/326739

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Is this issue this present in jaunty? Thanks.

[Cefn (6-launchpad-net-cefn-com)]

Sorry - didn't include versioning. I'm running on Intrepid Xubuntu 8.10 up to date, but not Jaunty.

[Cefn (6-launchpad-net-cefn-com)]

Now the font size of menus and lists is unbelievably tiny and unreadable in Thunar, Amarok, System Monitor, although it remains sensible in Firefox. Note the resolution of this screenshot - 1280x768. As it turns out it's on a 9 inch screen so it's even more of a joke than it would normally be.

The global fonts set inside 'User Interface' and 'Window Manager seem to have no effect. I don't know what is the system which controls these fonts. Is there a location where font sizes for features apart from just the title bar are set? What can I do as a workaround to persuade XFCE to launch new apps with sensible font sizes?

Throughout this whole boot cycle I've had the .gtkrc-2.0 workaround in place...

cefn@cefn-linux-tablet:~$ more .gtkrc-2.0
style "fonttweak"
{
font_name = "Sans 9"
}

widget_class "*Thunar*View*" style "fonttweak"

...and it's still not behaving itself.

[Cefn (6-launchpad-net-cefn-com)]

Turned out that after closing and relaunching firefox, the fonts in firefox had shrunk too.

I tried removing all XFCE config by removing the .config directory from my user home.

After logging out and logging back in, I now have only Thunar with huge fonts and other apps like system Monitor and Amarok are back to normal and not small any more.

However, the gtk user home config override workaround seems to have no effect now, just as if it wasn't there at all.

Can someone give me an idea what system actually configures the menu fonts and list fonts in Thunar or indeed in System Monitor and Terminal so that I can do something about it the next time.

[Mircsicz (mircsicz)]

I'm on Intrepid too, having nearly the same Prob as Cefn. In my case it's only the tiny Thunar fonts everything else seems to be fine... But the .gtkrc-2.0 gets ignored too...

One big difference to all the other's: I'm in a Debian Lenny Xen 3.2 DomU connecting via FreeNX

Hope someone has a hint!

Greetz
     Mircsicz

[Mircsicz (mircsicz)]

Seems the following did the Trick for me:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4046240&postcount=2

Greetz
Mircsicz

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Seems to affect only pre-jaunty (so with mcs, xfce 4.4). Should be fixed in >= jaunty (with xfconf, xfce 4.6).