Re:My AA issue (Score 1)

If by libgdkxft you mean libgdkxft0, it has a pretty scary description.

Package: libgdkxft0
Maintainer: Scott M. Dier
Architecture: i386
Source: gdkxft
Version: 1.0-2
Description: transparently adds anti-aliased font support to gtk+-1.2
*** THIS WILL CAUSE APPLICATIONS TO CRASH, DIE, LOSE INFORMATION, AND OTHER NASTY EFFECTS. DON'T USE THIS IF YOU WANT STABILITY ***
. Using an LD_PRELOAD, this library can transparently add AA fonts to gtk+ applications without recompiling. There are no headers for this library.