Java Swing font anti-aliasing w/o desktop environment

Hello all,

Thought I would post this here as well, seeing as it is probably more
of a GUI question than generalised Java.

Kind regards,
Taylor

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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:33:19 -0500
From: Taylor Venable <taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Java Swing font anti-aliasing w/o desktop environment


Hello all,

With the newer versions of Java your Swing apps can look extra pretty
thanks to font smoothing. When using Ubuntu (as I am) the builtin
desktop environment configurations set this up for you - when running
GNOME, KDE, or XFCE it looks great. But I choose to run my .xsession
file instead, which loads FVWM. And somewhere along the line something
isn't set right and I don't get pretty smoothed fonts in my Swing apps.
I checked environment variables and I can't see it there, so I'm
thinking it may be an X resource? I don't know; if anybody has any
ideas on which knob I can twiddle to get the pretty fonts back, I'd
greatly appreciate it!

Best regards.

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Taylor Venable
taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://real.metasyntax.net:2357/
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