There is this bug (Text layout font size doesn't change): in xfce4-xkb-plugin, the panel applet that displays keyboard layouts, the font size settings are not followed (if 'text' is selected instead of 'flag').
The font type/family and style can be changed, but the keyboard language name (us, fr, etc) is displayed much bigger than it should.
Can this be fixed somehow?
I have solved this on my 64bit install by overwriting the /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-xkb-plugin with the version from trusty, and by creating a symbolic link @libxfce4util.so.6 pointing to @libxfce4util.so.7 like this:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxfce4util.so.7 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxfce4util.so.6
xfce4-xkb-plugin file from the deb to replace the file /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-xkb-plugin. But after doing this and the link, the keyboard switcher is absent from the list in the xfce4-panel option to add a new item.
– cipricus
May 9 '17 at 12:31
As a workaround, changing the font type (family) and style instead of font size may improve the appearance: some fonts may look better, as they are (and/or appear) smaller or thiner than others.
For example DejaVu Sans Extralight
shows like this:
