CODEWITHSUNDEEP
fontsjava
user402642
user402642

Reputation:

Fonts on OpenJDK vs. Sun JDK 1.6 [Linux Platform]

I noticed that the Fonts on OpenJDK vs. Sun JDK look different. Java JDK has a better font set that accompanies it. Does anyone know what package the 'font' is and how I can have it on OpenJDK installations?

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2890

Answers (1)

wassimans
wassimans

Reputation: 8680

It's an issue related to anti-aliasing when rendering Swing based GUIs. Anti-aliasing comes enabled by default with Oracle JDK, and for some reasons (that I never wanted to investigate) anti-aliasing is not enabled in OpenJDK.

You can enable anti-aliasing support with your current OpenJDK installation by adding this instruction to your ~/.bash_profile:

export _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on"

Good luck!

Upvotes: 3

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