Hello all,

With the newer versions of Java your Swing apps can look extra pretty thanks to font smoothing. When using Ubuntu (as I am) the builtin desktop environment configurations set this up for you - when running GNOME, KDE, or XFCE it looks great. But I choose to run my .xsession file insetad, which loads FVWM. And somewhere along the line something isn't set right and I don't get pretty smoothed fonts in my Swing apps. I checked environment variables and I can't see it there, so I'm thinking it may be an X resource? I don't know; if anybody has any ideas on which knob I can twiddle to get the pretty fonts back, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Best regards.