Hello dear list users,
as the problem with nvidia is gone, it's time to fight another issue.
>From time to time I play java games on various sites, mainly
http://www.kurnik.pl. For a long time there was no 64 bit java plugin,
so I used chrooted sun java plugin. But now I don't have to use it
anymore:
ii icedtea-gcjwebplugin 1.0-2
Java plugin based on IcedTea and gcjwebplugin
ii openjdk-6-jre 6b11-6
OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT
ii openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b11-6
OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless)
ii openjdk-6-jre-lib 6b11-6
OpenJDK Java runtime (architecture independent libraries)

And it basically works. Basically, with one exception - fonts in java
applets look ugly. They don't seem to be antialiased, their shapes are
distorted. Readable, though, but very ugly.

What can I do to improve their look? Should I install anything? What
should I do to debug the reason?
In my KDE Debian GNU/Linux system all other fonts look fine.

Regards,
Robert


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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 21:06:32 +0200, Rob Gom wrote:
> Hello dear list users,
> as the problem with nvidia is gone, it's time to fight another issue.
> >From time to time I play java games on various sites, mainly
> http://www.kurnik.pl. For a long time there was no 64 bit java plugin,
> so I used chrooted sun java plugin. But now I don't have to use it
> anymore:
> ii icedtea-gcjwebplugin 1.0-2
> Java plugin based on IcedTea and gcjwebplugin
> ii openjdk-6-jre 6b11-6
> OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT
> ii openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b11-6
> OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless)
> ii openjdk-6-jre-lib 6b11-6
> OpenJDK Java runtime (architecture independent libraries)
>
> And it basically works. Basically, with one exception - fonts in java
> applets look ugly. They don't seem to be antialiased, their shapes are
> distorted. Readable, though, but very ugly.
>
> What can I do to improve their look? Should I install anything?

Did you try sun-java6-fonts already?

> What should I do to debug the reason?

You might have bitmap fonts enabled, which can cause the kind of problem
you describe, at least with certain applications. I don't know if this
configuration is relevant for java, though. If you want to check this,
run:

debconf-get-selections | grep fontconfig/enable_bitmaps

(The debconf-get-selections utility is in package debconf-utils.)

If you see that bitmap fonts are enabled then you can use

dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

to turn them off, restart Xorg and hope that java will choose nicer
fonts after that.

> In my KDE Debian GNU/Linux system all other fonts look fine.

KDE does not use bitmap fonts by default.

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Thank you very much for your answer.
I have checked debconf-utils output and it was indeed bitmap fonts set
to true. However, after unsetting it, look didn't change.
I have proceed further and tried to decompile java classes, but they
were so obfuscated, that I had to give up (I wanted to check which
fonts the applet tries to use).
I have also checked /usr/lib/jvm for font string, but there were too
many of them. I only noticed that there is latin-1 in many strings,
whereas I use latin-2 primarily ...
I will check further ...
Regards,
Robert


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Hi,
I have filed a bugreport against this issue - 495988. If you have any
comments, feel free to include them to that report.

Regards,
Robert


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