Intellij IDEA font smoothing in linux

intellij-idea openjdk font-smoothing
InsidE picture InsidE · Jun 27, 2013 · Viewed 22.2k times · Source

I'm using IntelliJ IDEA on Arch Linux with KDE. OpenJDK version is 1.7.0_40.

Whole IDE fonts (includes code editor) are rendered without any antialiasing and font smoothing. I set in idea.properties file idea.use.default.antialiasing.in.editor to true, and added in _JAVA_OPTIONS variable -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true without any effect.

What else I can try to enable font smoothing?

Answer

L__ picture L__ · Jun 29, 2013

Take a look here. I remember having the same problem when running IDEA, but after adding the line mentioned in the wiki the problem goes away.

export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=setting' where setting may be

  • off or false or default – No anti-aliasing
  • on – Full anti-aliasing
  • gasp – Use the font's built-in hinting instructions
  • lcd or lcd_hrgb – Anti-aliasing tuned for many popular LCD monitors
  • lcd_hbgr – Alternative LCD monitor setting
  • lcd_vrgb – Alternative LCD monitor setting
  • lcd_vbgr – Alternative LCD monitor setting

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