NetBeans 7.0 released

Re:NetBeans 7.0 released by saem on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @01:37PM (#2467556)

I'm running KDE/Fedora as my main machine, and Netbean fonts made my eyes bleed. This precipitated a flurry of searches as to how to fix the problem -- my desktop fonts are pretty, but the Netbean ones are awful.

Rather quickly you'll find that there are two tracks, one is to change the config/command line parameter to launch it (I believe it's: -J-Dswing.aatext=true), the other is to use the official Oracle JVM/JDK, and version 6, along with ensure Netbeans is launching with that (see JAVA_HOME). It has better font rendering/handling. I've done the former, but haven't bothered with the latter, as I prefer Fedora managing my packages.

I hope that helps.

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Re:NetBeans 7.0 released by vrotaru on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @04:22PM (#2468216)

It's a hack of of course, but you can set `swing.aatext=true system-wide`. Run:

   sudo java -jar jpui.jar

and set that property under System. `jpui.jar` can be get from http://jpui.sourceforge.net/

The other related property is `awt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on`

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