under beryl, fontforge starts with a wrong composite status. metacity --replace solves it. I attach screenshots with beryl and metacity.
Created attachment 115165 [details] fontforge starting under beryl other programs (I can remember squeak) have the same broken hints.
Created attachment 115167 [details] removing the composite manager solves it
I keyworded ~amd64, and it no longer happens, so a workaround would be to bump stable version for amd64 to a more recent version.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 156725 ***