Can I enable system-wide anti-aliasing of Java Swing applications? I use IceWM as my windows manager, and it as well as my GTK and QT apps are anti-aliased, so I'd like a consistent look.

My Java version is 1.6.0_03. On a Windows XP computer on which I just installed the same Java version, Swing apps appear to be anti-aliased (even though native apps aren't, except when showing large font sizes). (Another question, probably improper for this forum, would be how to enable anti-aliasing--NOT sub-pixel--for regular font sizes on XP.)

To answer your first question, the only way i know to anti-alias everything is to use an OpenGL desktop like compiz-fusion or xcompmgr and in your graphics driver configuration set anti-aliasing to a level you want it to be.

I know that with the nvidia driver you can configure this with nvidia-settings

Thanks for the reply, but I doubt my old Matrox MGA-G200 AGP video card is very well suited for that. I was hoping to find some setting to configure in the JVM.

I never worked with Matrox cards and i don't think they are supported with compiz-fusion. If you can change the graphics settings like you can with nvidia to change the anti-aliasing then you can try to run xcompmgr to see if everything is anti-aliased.

But won't things get slow with that card if everything is anti-aliased?

Thanks again, but I've found the solution: adding to my /etc/environment file.