Hi, > Is it normal that Gnome2 hangs when I want to use AA fonts > (export GDK_USE_XFT=1)?
Are you sure you have the proper font packages installed and put them into /etc/X11/XftConfig? That was what made all gtk2 apps hang here. (I don't remember what the 'proper' font packages were, but it finally worked after installing most of them.)
