Do you have an ~/.Xdefaults file or a ~/.fonts.conf? You cant try enabling hinting in your ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources like this: Xft.hinting: true Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Here are the relevant sections of mine: ! Xft settings --------------------------------------------------------------- Xft.dpi: 96 Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault !Xft.antialias: true Xft.rgba: rgb Xft.hinting: true Xft.hintstyle: hintfull !Xft.hintstyle: hintslight On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Christophe Garion wrote:

Hello,

I have a problem with xmonad under Debian with no particular config (no Config.Gnome etc.): in every Swing application, fonts are not anti-aliased, which is ugly.

If I add the -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on option when I start a jvm, fonts are anti-aliased. There is no global property file in Oracle jdk to configure this (notice that the problem is the same for openjdk). I can use the _JAVA_OPTIONS environment variable to set this option, but it adds comments in the console every time I launch a java application, which I do not want. There is no problem with GTK applications.

If I start a gnome-session from xmonad, fonts in swing applications are correctly anti-aliased.

Is there a way to correct this problem?

Sorry if an answer has already been provided, but I did not find any searching the web and Xmonad website.

Thanks in advance,

Christophe

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