The work arround of mjreged, works, the bold fonts only show with Ubuntu Font, you need change the fond, I change to Droid Sans Font.
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name 'Droid Sans 11' $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'Droid Sans 11' $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name 'Ubuntu Mono 12' $ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop font 'Droid Sans 11' $ gconftool --set /apps/metacity/general/titlebar_font 'Droid Sans Bold 11' --type STRING And add on netbeans-7.x/etc/netbeans.conf -J-Dswing.aatext=true -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on on property "netbeans_default_options" netbeans_default_options="-J-client -J-Xss2m -J-Xms32m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -J-Dsun.zip.disableMemoryMapping=true -J-Dswing.aatext=true -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/937200 Title: Fat fonts in Swing applications To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/+bug/937200/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs