Indeed, I was using the nvidia binary driver. I thought it would not work at all without explicitely telling it to ignore ABI changes... Great to have xorg 7.1 then, and sorry for the noise! I am marking the bug as rejected as they is nothing we can do with it, until a free drivers exists :/
** Changed in: gtk-engines (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Rejected -- font rendering broken in edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/54205 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs