Different font rendering when GDM is not used

From: August Karlstrom <fusionfile@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:09:08 +0100

I use Ubuntu 10.04 with the Blackbox window manager. After I have configured the system not to use GDM (Gnome Display Manager), the fonts in X Windows are rendered differently (read worse) compared to when I login from GDM. My conclusion is that GDM does something to improve the font rendering but I don't know what. Any clues?

/August
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