I had a line in my ~/.Xresources which was affecting this. I can reproduce from a clean account by running emacs-snapshot --xrm "Emacs.FontBackend: xft" from within compiz.
I had a line in my ~/.Xresources which was affecting this. I can reproduce from a clean account by running
emacs-snapshot --xrm "Emacs.FontBackend: xft"
from within compiz.