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Font rendering is really bad on linux

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Describe the bug When running Ghidra, the font rendering is really bad on Linux (have not tested on other OSes).

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Start Ghidra
  2. Notice the bad font rendering

Expected behavior Clear and readable fonts

Environment:

  • OS: Arch Linux
  • Java Version: 11.0.2
  • Ghidra Version: 9.0-3

Solution This issue can be fixed by adding VMARG_LIST+="-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true" in launch.sh (I added this on line 114 in launch.sh).

Before: pic-window-190316-1553-49

After adding the line: pic-window-190316-1556-01

Can this line be included standard in the package?

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Reactions:2
  • Comments:5

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ryanmkurtzcommented, Mar 25, 2019

In our next release, -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on will be set in support/launch.sh for Linux only. -Dswing.aatext=true doesn’t seem to be necessary.

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ryanmkurtzcommented, Mar 19, 2019

Thanks for double checking on that!

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