October 28, 2014
PhpStorm is a great IDE (albeit non-free software) but the default font rendering in Linux is atrocious.
A search for “phpstorm linux font rendering” will bring up a few different techniques, but here is what fixed font rendering for me on Fedora 20:
tuxjdk
on your system.PhpStorm.bak
. Download the PhpStorm .tar.gz
file and unpack it in your home directory, renaming it to PhpStorm
.cd
to the PhpStorm
directory and run patch -p1 < phpstorm-tuxjdk.patch
The contents of the patch are pretty straightforward: we are specifying a few font settings options, and making a change to run PhpStorm using TuxJDK instead of the standard java interpreter.
Enjoy beautiful fonts again! (I use M+ per this writer’s tip.)
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