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toosimilar

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Registered: 2019-06-24

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[Solved] Hieroglyphs with lightdm and Xfce 4.14

Hi,

after the last pacman -Syu update my lightdm login-screen shows hieroglyphs, see https://imgur.com/vsuIW1N

Also the whole Xfce 4.14 session after login looks like that (=unusable).

I can use the lightdm login to start KDE Plasma instead of Xfce, KDE looks ok then.

I also noticed that "mousepad" has those hieroglyphs when "use system-monospace-font" is selected.

Is this a bug in Xfce or lightdm - or just a misconfiguration?

Last edited by toosimilar (2019-08-19 07:43:57)

seth

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Re: [Solved] Hieroglyphs with lightdm and Xfce 4.14

Please search before posting, this is https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=248032

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toosimilar

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Registered: 2019-06-24

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Re: [Solved] Hieroglyphs with lightdm and Xfce 4.14

Thanks. Changing the fonts of Xfce and lightdm (to "Noto Sans Regular" in my case) fixes the problem.
(You can do this logged in to KDE using "xfce4-appearance-settings" for Xfce-fonts and editing /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf for lightdm-fonts)

Last edited by toosimilar (2019-08-18 16:38:58)

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved] Hieroglyphs with lightdm and Xfce 4.14

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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