I've been in contact with upstream about this bug and I've just uploaded a new PPA package with the patch which will likely be included upstream once it passes review.
precise: 7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.2ppa2 saucy: 7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.10.1ppa2 After these finish building (in 10 or 12 hours from now), please test them and let me know whether they fix the bug for you and whether you notice any new problems. Thanks for helping! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-unfonts-core in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/937200 Title: Fat fonts in Swing applications Status in OpenJDK: New Status in “fonts-unfonts-core” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “openjdk-7” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 I noticed that the fonts in Java Swing applications use the bold font weight. This looks really ugly and takes up to much space. 1. lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch) Release: 12.04 2. apt-cache policy openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-jdk: Installiert: 7~b147-2.0-1ubuntu2 Kandidat: 7~b147-2.0-1ubuntu2 Versionstabelle: *** 7~b147-2.0-1ubuntu2 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3. Applications rendering with normal fonts 4. Applications rendering with bold fonts ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: openjdk-7-jdk 7~b147-2.0-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic 3.2.6 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.92-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Feb 20 20:44:43 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) SourcePackage: openjdk-7 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-16 (3 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openjdk/+bug/937200/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp