[SOLVED] Bad font rendering and overlapping since last update

Hi all! Since the last updates I'm getting font rendering problems. I'm seeing something like this in lots of applications:
See the "ce" in Facebook, those letters are kinda overlapped! This happens in Nautilus too, for example in the word "devel". I'm using the Ubuntu patches for font rendering, but actually I have problems even with the stock packages.
I'm on a fresh install right now (I really needed to clean the old one, too much experimenting xD) and I keep having this problem.
Can anyone help me?
SOLVED I downgraded pango from 1.32.1-1 to 1.30.1-1 and everything went back to normality
Last edited by Gianfrix (2012-11-06 14:09:00)

brebs wrote:https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32612?project=1
That seems to be an issue. Downgrading to  xorg-server 1.13.0-3 resolved problem. Watching ticket for future updates. Thanks a lot
Last edited by mamciek (2012-11-20 22:02:58)

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