[hjst]

You're probably already aware of this, but just in case: it's possible to force Swing (and AWT) apps to use the system's font rendering with the "swing.aatext" and "awt.useSystemAAFontSettings" respectively.

I have the following in my IDEA .desktop file:

export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true' && idea.sh %u

This is the result: http://i.imgur.com/3V9Nf3k.png

[noir_lord]

Thanks and yes I've played with those settings.

While much better not quite right still and also I have some screens rotated so I have hrgb and vrgb which looks fuzzy, I played with setting it to gasp/lcd.

Using Terminus because it is a pixel perfect font with no aliasing means that rotation etc just don't matter.