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This is how the program looks with XFT fonts. 

I think the solution is fine. As XFT was added to Motif in the sunset of its active development, the documentation is very scarce. You have collected the right bits...

The "default" XFT rendering with Motif on MacOS is slow, but only for drawing labels. The rest of the software speed is normal. So it is not that dramatic. But...

@justinmeiners thank you Justin, for pushing for inclusion of this bug fix. I will just point to the parts of ISC answers which are not correct in my opinion. The...

That would be wonderful. The white resize square also covers some of the application window's contents, and conflicts the little style the X11 applications might have.

The windows are not modal, but they are children of the application top-level window. So they are not independent top level windows; they always stay on top of main window,...

This is the source code of utility xseticon, you can see the proper way to set _NET_WM_ICON property. https://git.launchpad.net/xseticon/tree/xseticon.c But I am not sure if XQuartz respects that. The other...

To me, it is mostly consistent: First time, when top level windows is iconized, child is also iconized. But if I de-iconize the the top level window, and iconize it...

@justinmeiners Download Motif from Sourceforge, edit XmRenderT.c and replace functions _XmXftDrawString2 and _XmXftDrawString. After the fix, all Motif user interface refreshes (which use XFT fonts) on Mac OS X will...

@justinmeiners I hope you will be successful. It would be even better if ICS would restore Motif bugzilla or transfer its contents to sourceforge, since it contained a lot of...