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What about font rendering on linux, any better? As of now, it's so horrible I can't use the product. Font rendering in Atom or Sublime is so much better.From w

What about font rendering on linux, any better? As of now, it's so horrible I can't use the product. Font rendering in Atom or Sublime is so much better.From what I understand this is because of their usage of java swing. But looking at fonts is what we do all day and I can't have them to look like shit.

ergo14 10y ago
What distro/DE? I'm using it under gnome 3 and its looking fine here.
- deleted 10y ago
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- staticelf 10y ago
  Red Hat enterprise desktop, I also have Gnome 3 and tried Webstorm recently and was very disappointed.
  - ergo14 10y ago
    Might that be related to some very old gnome or java version?
ohstopitu 10y ago
I used to feel the same way. However, after switching to Oracle JDK, and modifying a couple of settings in one of the dot files, it seemed to look as close to atom/sublime as possible (on font sizes 16+). ^ Tested on Webstorm and IntelliJ. Will post configs when I get home. (I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity 7 and the latest updates)
LoneWolf 10y ago
Looks good to me here, using KDE Plasma here, and Oracle JVM.
bitL 10y ago
On Cinnamon + HiDPI IDEA looks perfect.
andrey_cheptsov 10y ago
We made quite a lot of progress in this area recently. However, not all these changes have made it to the release. When you have a chance, please try to launch the IDE using the latest JDK downloaded from https://bintray.com/jetbrains/intellij-jdk https://bintray.com/jetbrains/intellij-jdk (e.g. the build 555).
- staticelf 10y ago
  Glad to hear, I actually love Jetbrains products but since the fonts have been pretty bad it was impossible for me to use the product. I will try the latest version out! EDIT: How do I start it with that version?
pjmlp 10y ago
As far as I am aware it doesn't happen with Oracle JDK.
- staticelf 10y ago
  I tried to install it on my system but it seems I cannot successfully do that. :/
__roland__ 10y ago
I noticed an improvement over the last version, so I'd give it a spin.
khkramer 10y ago
On Ubuntu installing infinality and their JDK patches made the fonts look amazing for me. With certain settings I even prefer it over OS X
malkia 10y ago
I've changed everything on my system to be "Anonymous Pro 8" without any anti-aliasing, then forced it IJ to be "10". I did simply because when Chromoting, it'll still look good. Somehow I've got really used to fixed-width font for almost anywhere, and seeing each pixel actually makes it somehow more readable to me.
noir_lord 10y ago
http://i.imgur.com/vkEq2qP.png http://i.imgur.com/vkEq2qP.png Left is Intellij, Right is VS Code, same font same size. Using the latest x64 jdk release on bintray, it's remarkably close for a swing based app.
- malkia 10y ago
  It's hard to judge though, since the image has compression artifacts. Also hinted anti-aliasing may look well on one monitor, and bad on another (RGB horizontally vs vertically, or other arrangement). But ignoring this, the outlines look very nice in both. And having said that, I actually prefer fixed non-anti-aliased, in fact very pixelish "Anonymous Pro 8" everywhere.
- staticelf 10y ago
  http://imgur.com/a/EZYEB http://imgur.com/a/EZYEB Left is Atom, right is Intellij and I think it's much better now than before when I installed Oracle JDK
Rotareti 10y ago
Looks flawlessly on my Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon machine using OpenJDK and 'Monospaced' (fontname). I had to set 'antialiasing' to 'greyscale' under 'appearance'.

ergo14 10y ago

What distro/DE? I'm using it under gnome 3 and its looking fine here.

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staticelf 10y ago
Red Hat enterprise desktop, I also have Gnome 3 and tried Webstorm recently and was very disappointed.
- ergo14 10y ago
  Might that be related to some very old gnome or java version?

ohstopitu 10y ago

I used to feel the same way. However, after switching to Oracle JDK, and modifying a couple of settings in one of the dot files, it seemed to look as close to atom/sublime as possible (on font sizes 16+). ^ Tested on Webstorm and IntelliJ. Will post configs when I get home. (I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity 7 and the latest updates)

LoneWolf 10y ago

Looks good to me here, using KDE Plasma here, and Oracle JVM.

bitL 10y ago

On Cinnamon + HiDPI IDEA looks perfect.

andrey_cheptsov 10y ago

We made quite a lot of progress in this area recently. However, not all these changes have made it to the release. When you have a chance, please try to launch the IDE using the latest JDK downloaded from https://bintray.com/jetbrains/intellij-jdk https://bintray.com/jetbrains/intellij-jdk (e.g. the build 555).

staticelf 10y ago
Glad to hear, I actually love Jetbrains products but since the fonts have been pretty bad it was impossible for me to use the product. I will try the latest version out! EDIT: How do I start it with that version?

pjmlp 10y ago

As far as I am aware it doesn't happen with Oracle JDK.

staticelf 10y ago
I tried to install it on my system but it seems I cannot successfully do that. :/

__roland__ 10y ago

I noticed an improvement over the last version, so I'd give it a spin.

khkramer 10y ago

On Ubuntu installing infinality and their JDK patches made the fonts look amazing for me. With certain settings I even prefer it over OS X

malkia 10y ago

I've changed everything on my system to be "Anonymous Pro 8" without any anti-aliasing, then forced it IJ to be "10". I did simply because when Chromoting, it'll still look good. Somehow I've got really used to fixed-width font for almost anywhere, and seeing each pixel actually makes it somehow more readable to me.

noir_lord 10y ago

http://i.imgur.com/vkEq2qP.png http://i.imgur.com/vkEq2qP.png Left is Intellij, Right is VS Code, same font same size. Using the latest x64 jdk release on bintray, it's remarkably close for a swing based app.

malkia 10y ago
It's hard to judge though, since the image has compression artifacts. Also hinted anti-aliasing may look well on one monitor, and bad on another (RGB horizontally vs vertically, or other arrangement). But ignoring this, the outlines look very nice in both. And having said that, I actually prefer fixed non-anti-aliased, in fact very pixelish "Anonymous Pro 8" everywhere.
staticelf 10y ago
http://imgur.com/a/EZYEB http://imgur.com/a/EZYEB Left is Atom, right is Intellij and I think it's much better now than before when I installed Oracle JDK

Rotareti 10y ago

Looks flawlessly on my Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon machine using OpenJDK and 'Monospaced' (fontname). I had to set 'antialiasing' to 'greyscale' under 'appearance'.