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		watt on May 26, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Java developer says he built, launched basic open ... It appears swing fonts actually are fixable, see for example this approach using patched JDK (on Linux). (Fixing issue for Idea on Linux, but actually fixes it for all Swing apps - http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-57233 )

brokenparser on May 26, 2013 [–]

Thank you! There's also a fix for Arch, no idea if it's the same patch, though. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jre7-openjdk-headless-fon...

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