Intellij IDEA font smoothing in linux

Question

I'm using IntelliJ IDEA on Arch Linux with KDE. OpenJDK version is 1.7.0_40.

Whole IDE fonts (includes code editor) are rendered without any antialiasing and font smoothing. I set in idea.properties file idea.use.default.antialiasing.in.editor to true, and added in _JAVA_OPTIONS variable -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true without any effect.

What else I can try to enable font smoothing?

Answer 1

Take a look here. I remember having the same problem when running IDEA, but after adding the line mentioned in the wiki the problem goes away.

export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=setting' where setting may be

• off or false or default – No anti-aliasing
• on – Full anti-aliasing
• gasp – Use the font's built-in hinting instructions
• lcd or lcd_hrgb – Anti-aliasing tuned for many popular LCD monitors
• lcd_hbgr – Alternative LCD monitor setting
• lcd_vrgb – Alternative LCD monitor setting
• lcd_vbgr – Alternative LCD monitor setting