[Live-demo] Fonts in OpenJDK7

[Hamish]

Activity Workshop wrote:

> I haven't tried out a recent version of the live image, so please 
> forgive my basic question.
> When the transition was made from a Sun JDK to an OpenJDK, were there 
> any problems (or complaints) about the appearance of fonts within the 
> java desktop OSGeo applications?  Fonts being unattractive, menus being 
> too wide, that kind of thing?
> 
> And if so, was any solution found to this?  I'm hoping that if someone 
> found a solution for OSGeo Live (or Xubuntu) then maybe it will also be 
> a valid solution for Ubuntu and Debian.

yes, try  'apt-get install gsfonts-x11 ttf-dejavu-extra'

> To be honest I was hoping it was just a temporary OpenJDK6 problem or 
> only an Ubuntu problem but I'm now faced with the issue directly myself 
> with OpenJDK7  :(

for motif apps also you now need to do a manual install of the
xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi packages.


Hamish