netbeans has bad fonts in Kde4

[marko]

I want to improve the ugly fonts in netbeans 6.7.1 on Fedora 12. I tried adding this to the start options:

--laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel

via the netbeans.conf

from some posted hints on the internet but it doesn't seem to help. I'm using the latest KDE4 (4.3.3-3) on Fedora 12 and openjdk

$> java -version
java version "1.6.0_0"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.6) (fedora-33.b16.fc12-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode) .

I've confirmed the --laf option is being passed to the netbeans by running
ps ax | grep netbeans

and I see it on the option list to the JVM for netbeans. I suspect my option above only works well on Gnome desktop and KDE4 needs something else?


UPDATE I think this will improve the netbeans fonts both in the edited files and in the netbeans app menus:
Add this to the $home/.netbeans/6.7/etc/netbeans.conf
file (you'd likely need to copy netbeans.conf from /usr/share/netbeans/6.7.1/etc/netbeans.conf )
for the netbeans_default_options=

-J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -J-Dswing.aatext=true --laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel

This works fine in Gnome, now I'll try KDE4 ---> it does

[pkpatel88]

Wouldn't it be better to add

export _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dswing.aatext=true -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on"

to your bashrc file.

This problem effects other java applications (e.g. MARS MIPS simulator and JFLAP). The method above doesn't make java applications use the GTK+ look and feel.

Adding the following to your bashrc file will make most java swing applications look like GTK+ applications with few notable exceptions, NetBeans.

export _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dswing.aatext=true -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel"

In that case it would be better to add " --laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel" to netbeans_default_options in netbeans.conf

[leif81]

I personnally like using the value 'lcd' instead of 'on'. i.e. -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd

The fonts are a bit thinner looking this way.

---------- Post added at 03:28 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 03:28 PM CST ----------

I personnally like using the value 'lcd' instead of 'on'. i.e. -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd

The fonts are a bit thinner looking this way.

[lovenemesis]

Woo, this really explains the ugly fonts on any java Swing applications but not on SWT ones.

I always changed the AA rendering option to LCD. Toggling it to others solves the problems.