I've found this answer on stackoverflow <https://stackoverflow.com/a/26882303/57441> suggesting to set -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=gasp. This setting seems to completely disable font anti-aliasing for all the UI elements, but to me it looks better than the other options. The anti-aliasing of the editor and output window fonts still doesn't look as good as it used to, but it's definitely usable.
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 12:15, Aldo Brucale <[email protected]> wrote: > I've added a few screenshots to NETBEANS-1344 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-1344?focusedCommentId=16658817&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16658817> > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 18:07, Laszlo Kishalmi <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Could you attach screenshots to >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-1344 showing the >> difference between using Java 8, Java 10 and (Java 11 + >> -J-Djdk.gtk.version=2.2 >> and -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on) >> >> I've just tested with Ubuntu 18.10 on Gnome 3 desktop. NetBeans is kind >> of ugly even with the recommended settings. Using Unity Desktop it looks as >> gorgeous as before. In order to look consistently good, you need to use >> something else than GTK LAF. Darcula works well. >> >> On 10/18/2018 04:00 AM, Aldo Brucale wrote: >> >> On Ubuntu 18.04 I've tried to set both -J-Djdk.gtk.version=2.2 and >> -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on: Netbeans surely looks better, but >> still not enough for my daily work. Except for the tests, I'll stick with >> Java 8 or 10 for now. >> >> On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 11:00, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 06:51, Laszlo Kishalmi <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Blame JDK and Gnome. >>> >>> I realise there are some open JDK bugs, but are we sure how much is >>> JDK? There's a lot of stuff going on in o.n.swing.plaf - just >>> wondering if there's stuff going on in GtkLFCustoms that's making >>> assumptions that no longer apply with GTK3? >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/tree/master/platform/o.n.swing.plaf/src/org/netbeans/swing/plaf/gtk >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Neil >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >>> >>> >>
