java applications don't look right

JustinHoMi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 97

Hey,

I just installed a couple of java applications (jbidwatcher, jedit, others...) and they don't look right. The spacing inbetween gui elements is wrong. Many of the elements are too tall, it seems. I've never had this problem with java on my old fedora boxes, so I have no idea what it might be.

Any ideas?

Justin

Xitup · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 6

I noticed the same thing using the default blackdown jre. I switched to the sun version and everything looks fine.

JustinHoMi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 97

Hm, I think I'm running the blackdown one also... whatever is installed by default.

jeffmccoy · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Washington DC

I'm running blackdown and there is a relatively easy fix for the spacing problem - I googled around and found this on the blackdown java lists.

Search for the file "jre/lib/font.properties" file. I had two of these files, I think because I'd installed both the runtime environment and the sdk. Anyway, depending on what you installed, look in that directory, find a lib directory, find the font.properties file. If there are two, edit both.

In the font.properties file, there should be two lines for each font, one with a 0 and the other with a 1:

sharm · n00b Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 24

Thanks! That was bugging the hell out of me. Your solution worked perfectly. Just a quick note...

If you have blackdown-jre AND blackdown-jdk installed, you will need to change the file located at