Fonts look horrible in any java application

Posted by Eirik Berg on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Eirik Berg
Published on 2012-03-28T16:36:43Z Indexed on 2012/03/28 17:44 UTC
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All fonts in java applications look horrible. I have seen a few questions about this previously, but they are quite old now(11.04 was the most recent, but that didn't seem to be the same problem). For some reason java applications do not use the system font (Ubuntu 11), but rather some elongated font that doesn't seem to have any anti-aliasing. So what I'm asking is if this is an open bug(couldn't find any on launchpad), something the developers have done wrong, or if there is a way to configure the fonts used in java application. Perhaps this is just a shortcoming of openjdk and I should install the Sun version instead?

Attached an image showing jitsi, but the problem is also present in minecraft, my internet-bank and anything else involving java. I'm on 12.04, but since I couldn't find anything on launchpad I'm assuming that isn't relevant.

picture of jitsi

Edit: actually managed to forget the picture...

Thanks!

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