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This didn't really work for me. I already had Azul's Zulu v15 installed so figured I'd give this a try. I pressed ⌘ ⇧ A and typed "Choose Boot" in Actions, pic
by thamer 5y ago
This didn't really work for me. I already had Azul's Zulu v15 installed so figured I'd give this a try.
I pressed ⌘ ⇧ A and typed "Choose Boot" in Actions, picked "Choose Boot Java Runtime for the IDE", then selected Zulu 15 and restarted IntelliJ… then the outline of main window loaded with its menu, but none of its contents. It was all gray and none of the panels ever appeared. They eventually showed up after I resized the window but I'd consistently get in this state each time the IDE started.
Also, the fonts didn't appear to render correctly. It's hard to say exactly what's wrong with them but the letter spacing and subpixel rendering seemed to be different.
Is there anything else to do to make this work without having to resize the window each time?
- charcircuit 5y agoSome window managers require you to set _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 for for it to render correctly.
- gjvc 5y agoGah. I do apologise. I should have mentioned I am on Linux, where updating to Zulu 15 works like a charm. (Zooming font size in the editor with scroll wheel is ... well, try it before/after :-)) The JBR has some fixes specifically for font rendering among others, on Mac OS X. Sorry for getting your hopes up. OTOH, Linux on the desktop is pretty good in 2021 :-) In this case, it certainly beats the Mac! :-P Funny, I used to think myself knowledgeable for knowing what JVM knobs to twiddle out of the box. Now I see that the fact they need adjusting out of the box is a weakness of the platform itself.