Ugly text rendering

[Beep6581]

Hello

The text rendered in all panels is ugly:

The text rendered in tooltips is nice (see the model.option.useXRender tooltip):

Can I do anything to make the text render nicely?

nightly-2018-04-07-4-g d4c2588

$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_161"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 3.7.0) (Gentoo icedtea-3.7.0)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.161-b12, mixed mode)

[HighwayofLife]

Seems like an anti-alias setting is disabled or turned off.

[Beep6581]

Adding this to the command line solved it:
-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on

More options: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Java_Runtime_Environment_fonts#Basic_settings

My full launcher command-line:

java -Xmx2G -Dsun.java2d.opengl=true -jar "$HOME/programs/code-freecol/FreeCol.jar" --freecol-data "$HOME/programs/code-freecol/data"

I will leave the closing of the issue to you.

[Beep6581]

Now I add a freecol alias to ~/.bashrc as follows:

alias freecol='java -Xmx1G -Dsun.java2d.opengl=true -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -jar "$HOME/programs/code-freecol/FreeCol.jar" --freecol-data "$HOME/programs/code-freecol/data"'

When I want to run freecol, I just type "freecol" without having to cd anywhere.

[mpope042]

Yep, Java/OS/whatever defaults change and make FreeCol look ugly. Not a lot we can do about it, but thanks Beep6581 for finding the work around.