Weird fonts and cursor with XFree86 and Windowmaker

Has anyone else noticed how weird the fonts presentation is (e.g., slanted text) in the GUI of X11 based on XFree86 and Windowmaker? I also have the fontconfig, freetype and Xft2 ports installed. Also, the cursor is a white arrow that easily gets lost when the background color is white (it never used to be this way -- it was a black cursor before). If I knew how to easily take a screen snapshot in X11 with XFree86 I would do so for demonstration of the problem at hand. Is this a problem with Windowmaker not changing to reflect changes in other ports? Can anyone recommend a nice window manager to use in the event that Windowmaker is essentially deprecated? Much thanks, T.