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Getting PyCharm/Intellij to have smooth fonts on Ubuntu

November 29, 2014

Tags: intellij, java, ubuntu

Ubuntu uses OpenJDK as its default Java implementation. This is fine except that the fonts render jagged. JetBrains says that this is the fault of Java vendors. The solution is the use tuxjdk https://code.google.com/p/tuxjdk/:

wget https://googledrive.com/host/0B68yuEpDuq6waUl5UjNTUWRlYTQ/jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08.tar.xz
tar -xvf jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08.tar.xz
sudo mv jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08 /usr/lib/jvm
rm jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08.tar.xz

Then add this line to the top of pycharm-4.0.1/bin/pycharm.sh:

JDK_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08/"