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Martins Balodis
Asked: 2012-04-27 12:50:31 +0800 CST

Netbeans all menu fonts are bold after upgrade to 12.04

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After updating ubuntu to 12.04 all fonts got bold. I haven't installed themes or configured fonts.

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Product Version: NetBeans IDE 7.1 (Build 201112071828)

Java: 1.7.0_03; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 22.1-b02

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4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This is a bug:

    In the first link, there is a comment that will point you to another bug. There you can find the following solution:

    sudo apt-get remove fonts-unfonts-core
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  2. My Netbeans was showing the IDE font as all italics after an OS upgrade. I ran the command sudo apt-get install fonts-unfonts-core and this resolved the problem.

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  3. The accepted solution of removing fonts of course works but it's not very elegant

    sudo apt-get remove fonts-unfonts-core

    instead you can simply change options in Netbeans by editing the file

    /usr/local/netbeans-8.0.2/etc/netbeans.conf

    which you can also find with a simple

    find / -name netbeans.conf

    and then add the following line to netbeans options:

    -J-Dswing.aatext=true -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd --laf Metal

    so you should get a line similar to:

    netbeans_default_options="-J-client -J-Xss2m -J-Xms32m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -J-Dsun.zip.disableMemoryMapping=true -J-Dswing.aatext=true -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd --laf Metal"
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  4. In the comments of the bug, there is also a blog post listing two other solutions to solve the problem rather than removing the the fonts:

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