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The below image shows pavucontrol on my Debian 10 running xfce-Desktop.

One can see that for example the menus in the menu bar are written next to each other without space (WiedergabeAufnahmeAusgabegeräte...). Other window decorations are also missing. If it was html, I would bet on a misconfigured css.

The menu entries are also displayed without space in other applications, e.g. xfce4-terminal.

I wanted to keep the xfce installation mimimal, so I installed xfce using:

apt-get install lightdm xfce gtk3-engines-xfce xfce4-goodies xfce4-power-manager

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Does somebody know how to fix this?

It should look like this:

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    Have you launched `xfce4-appearance-settings` and reviewed themes there? In some circumstances I see unsatisfying rendering with some themes, especially when I do a very minimal install, and I usually fix that by looking for theme packages in APT default repository, then reviewing themes (which come with their theme engine as dependency, but there are far fewer engines than themes) until I find some theme that renders well for my use case. Please tell how things go for you. – Stéphane Gourichon Dec 05 '19 at 16:33
  • Thanks, that's the solution! I posted an answer giving credit to you. If you post your comment as answer I will delete mine and accept your answer. – Markus Dec 07 '19 at 18:44

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Credits go to Stéphane Gourichon:

Launching xfce4-appearance-settings I changed the theme for Xfce to Adwaita.

The corresponding config files are ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml (per user) and /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml (system-wide).

The entry in there changed from

<property name="ThemeName" type="string" value="Xfce"/>

to

<property name="ThemeName" type="string" value="Adwaita"/>
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    Solution didn't work for me on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with TightVNC. I've also found this, not sure if it's direclty related to my situation: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfwm4/+bug/1860921 – Jean Monet Jun 07 '20 at 14:28
  • Deduced from the above, replacing the tightvnc server by tigervnc provides a working XFCE desktop. This is an acknowledged bug, still present in Ubuntu 20.04 – Jan Wielemaker Feb 28 '21 at 10:30