As I stated before, the font shown was Bitstream Vera 8pt, though it occured with any font that wasn't antialiased.
However, I do not have the problem on a fresh install, only one my one system which was upgraded from Breezy to Dapper. So I'm not sure what the difference(s) would be. -- Bad font rendering with antialiasing off https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/33498 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs