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#1 2009-10-21 17:14:27

knysng
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Registered: 2008-05-10
Posts: 23

JAVA / SWING apps, font AA / LaF KDE 4.3

Hi Everyone,

I know the title is terrible, but here is my problem:
I am using Netbeans for most of my development projects. I am very happy with it; however, the look and feel of Netbeans (and most other Java apps, such as FreeMind for example) is appalling and does not integrate into my KDE 4.3 desktop at all. I understand that you can start netbeans with certain options to change the look and feel to GTK, but the fonts still look jagged.

I followed this forum post http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=72892 and tried to set the JRE / JAVA options globally, so that all java apps start with GTK laf and AA. However, non of the methods described work / netbeans overrides them (?).

But really, the biggest problem are the ugly fonts. Java / SWING apps do not seem to recognize my KDE settings for AA and font style at all. And non of the Cl options work to fix it.

Does anyone have any tips or tricks to fix any of these issues I am having with the combination Java / Swing / KDE / NB?

Running:

Archlinux (duh)
KDE 4.3 / qt-gtk-engine
sun-jdk 1.6uX
Netbeans 6.7.1

Thanks!
KnY

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#2 2009-10-21 23:11:03

thisoldman
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From: Pittsburgh
Registered: 2009-04-25
Posts: 1,172

Re: JAVA / SWING apps, font AA / LaF KDE 4.3

I added what I knew about improving Sun java fonts to the wiki:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Jav … _-_Sun_JRE.  You may want to try other fonts than B&H's Lucida.  See the section in the wiki article about changing the default fonts by editing 'fontconfig.properties'.

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#3 2009-10-22 22:57:37

knysng
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Registered: 2008-05-10
Posts: 23

Re: JAVA / SWING apps, font AA / LaF KDE 4.3

Thanks!

I will give it a shot, once I get the chance.

Regards
KnY

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