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[Ryan Tandy <937200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BTW, JDK 7 doesn't actually read fontconfig.properties any more (the
automatic configuration via libfontconfig is preferred). The
fontconfig.properties installed in /etc/java-7-openjdk already has the
proper fonts and paths for Ubuntu but it's unused!

If you make a symlink with a more specific name like this:

    sudo ln -s /etc/java-7-openjdk/fontconfig.properties
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/fontconfig.Ubuntu.properties

then it does get read. So that's an easy way to work around this bug.
(Same for Oracle JDK 7, with paths adjusted appropriately.)

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

Title:
  Fat fonts in Swing applications

Status in OpenJDK:
  New
Status in “fonts-unfonts-core” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “openjdk-7” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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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