{"id":3609,"date":"2015-11-23T23:16:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2020-10-07T18:28:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T17:28:34","slug":"ubuntus-swing-gtk-laf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/ubuntus-swing-gtk-laf.html","title":{"rendered":"Java’s Swing GTK LaF nice and pretty on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global Menu and HUD support<\/a><\/li>\n
Better Font Rendering<\/a><\/li>\n
How to revert the changes<\/a><\/li>\n
Related Links<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav>\n\n\r\n
In Ubuntu Java apps which use Swing\u2019s GTK Look and Feel (LaF) do not appear as native applications.<\/p>\n
The menus does not have borders and do not appear as app menus on the top of the screen nor provide HUD<\/a> support. The fonts on buttons and dialog boxes are thinner and do not match to the native look and feel.<\/p>\n
This how-to describes step by step how you improve the GTK LaF of Java\u2019s Swing apps.<\/p>\n
For Linux Mint (Cinnamon, XFCE) refer my posting\u00a0 Display Java\u2019s Swing menus correctly in GTK LaF<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n
Global Menu and HUD support<\/h3>\n
For the global menu and HUD support you need to install the package \u201cAyatana\u201d. This solves the border problem as a positive side-effect. Because it is not in Ubuntu\u2019s repositories you have to get it via PPA. You have to type in the terminal:<\/p>\n
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danjaredg\/jayatana\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\nsudo apt-get install jayatana<\/code><\/pre>\nOnce installed, log out and log back in. If you want to perform the following steps too, you just need to log out and in at the end of the whole process.<\/p>\nBetter Font Rendering<\/h3>\nTo improve the appearance of fonts in Java apps install the package\u00a0 \u201cInfinality\u201d from the following PPA first:<\/p>\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:no1wantdthisname\/ppa\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\nsudo apt-get upgrade\r\nsudo apt-get install fontconfig-infinality<\/code><\/pre>\nAfter install a patch for \u201cOpenJDK\u201d and install\/reinstall Java:<\/p>\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:no1wantdthisname\/openjdk-fontfix\r\nsudo apt-get update<\/code><\/pre>\nOpenJDK7<\/strong> (e.g. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS):<\/p>\nsudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk<\/code><\/pre>\nOpenJDK8<\/strong> (e.g. Ubuntu 15.04 or higher):<\/p>\nsudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk<\/code><\/pre>\nOnce installed, log out and log back in at the latest.<\/p>\n
The following screenshot shows the Java-IDE \u201cNetbeans\u201d after applying this how-to:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
How to revert the changes<\/h3>\nTo revert the changes made above use the following commands:<\/p>\nsudo apt-get --purge remove jayatana libjayatana libjayatanaag libjayatana-java libjayatanaag-java\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\nsudo apt-get purge fontconfig-infinality\r\nsudo apt-get install ppa-purge\r\nsudo ppa-purge ppa:no1wantdthisname\/ppa\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\nsudo ppa-purge ppa:no1wantdthisname\/openjdk-fontfix<\/code><\/pre>\nFinally reinstall Java (OpenJDK7 oder<\/em> OpenJDK8).<\/p>\nsudo apt-get remove openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jre-headless\r\nsudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jdk<\/code><\/pre>\nor
\n<\/code><\/p>\nsudo apt-get remove openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless\r\nsudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jdk<\/code><\/pre>\nOnce finished, log out and log back.<\/p>\nRelated Links<\/h3>\n\nGet Unity Global Menu \/ HUD Support For Java Swing Applications With JAyatana <\/a><\/li>\n
Better Font Rendering In Linux With Infinality <\/a><\/li>\n
Install OpenJDK Patched With Font Fixes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0<\/p><\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/span> <\/a><\/li>
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