This is my setup using Wind, an X11 window manager that has no iconification and instead relies on virtual desktops to manage space. Complementing it are all kinds of X default programs like Xclock, an lxpanel, Elinks as a browser, mocp as a music player, nano as a text editor, and irssi as an IRC client.
I have not installed any other fonts than those that came by default in the xorg package. The only custom font configuration is for window titles:
-bitstream-charter-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*