xfce4 problems -current
 

After most recent -current update (kernel *.80 et al. and reinstalled nvidia), I'm seeing 2 strange behaviors:

1) alt-f1 used to open the popup apps menu, now it doesn't do anything

2) some fonts have become very very small, others larger. For example Firefox the url bar is tiny whereas the Nextcloud app the fonts are 2x too large. Checked DPI but it's at 96 as always. No changes to font size in appearance panels either.

The newest iso Nov,29,2020 uses the newest upower xfce package and programs like the weather applet and desktop settings will not function properly. I use an older iso from August and do updates. I blacklist the upower program while using slackpkg upgrade. Hope this helps.

Here, this is what worked for me:

Then log out and log back in again. You might have to reestablish a few settings afterwards, depending on what experimentation you may have done while things were broken.

Going forward, I won't be upgrading upower until other things are sorted.

Useful threads:

• Battery triggered power actions no longer work after updating to upower-0.99.11-x86_64-1.txz
• XFCE 4.14 Upgrade from recently add in testing /vtown
• Problem with GTK (probably) on XFCE

This is a fantastic resource: Cumulative archive

Wow, so upower mangled the desktop settings? I would not have suspected upower as a culprit. Thanks for these suggestions.

Yeah, I wouldn't have expected that either. Say, would you happen to have hibernation set up? Downgrading upower fixed everything but hibernation for me, and I'd like to know if your experience is the same as mine.

I don't. Only ever use S3 sleep.

Update -- just clicked it from Logout pull-down menu and nothing happened. Other functions are ok.