[xmonad] Problem with anti-aliased fonts in Java/Swing applications

[Christophe Garion]

Hello,

I have a problem with xmonad under Debian with no particular config (no
Config.Gnome etc.): in every Swing application, fonts are not
anti-aliased, which is ugly.

If I add the -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on option when I start a jvm,
fonts are anti-aliased. There is no global property file in Oracle jdk
to configure this (notice that the problem is the same for openjdk). I
can use the _JAVA_OPTIONS environment variable to set this option, but
it adds comments in the console every time I launch a java application,
which I do not want. There is no problem with GTK applications.

If I start a gnome-session from xmonad, fonts in swing applications are
correctly anti-aliased.

Is there a way to correct this problem?

Sorry if an answer has already been provided, but I did not find any
searching the web and Xmonad website.

Thanks in advance,

Christophe

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