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[Ryan Tandy <937200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

pcworld, thanks for that test case.

Some helpful debug output can be had by running it like this:

    java -Dsun.java2d.debugfonts=true TestCase

It's especially instructive to do that after:

    gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name

and after:

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'DejaVu Sans 11'
# or 'Droid Sans 11', or something else

and compare the results.

This does seem to work properly in current trusty. I'll try to figure
out whether it was fixed by a change in openjdk-7 or in some other
package.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/937200

Title:
  Fat fonts in Swing applications

Status in “fonts-unfonts-core” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “openjdk-7” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 I noticed that the fonts in Java
  Swing applications use the bold font weight. This looks really ugly
  and takes up to much space.

  
  1.
  lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu precise (development branch)
  Release:	12.04

  
  2. 
  apt-cache policy openjdk-7-jdk 
  openjdk-7-jdk:
    Installiert: 7~b147-2.0-1ubuntu2
    Kandidat:    7~b147-2.0-1ubuntu2
    Versionstabelle:
   *** 7~b147-2.0-1ubuntu2 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  3. 
  Applications rendering with normal fonts

  4.
  Applications rendering with bold fonts

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: openjdk-7-jdk 7~b147-2.0-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic 3.2.6
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.92-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Feb 20 20:44:43 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  SourcePackage: openjdk-7
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-16 (3 days ago)

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