Can I make IntelliJ IDEA look more like Eclipse?

Question

I\'ve been developing in Eclipse for a long while, but am taking a hard look at IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3 because of its good Flex development tools and Maven flexmojos integratio

Answer 1

Try adding

-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=gasp
-Dswing.aatext=true
-Dsun.java2d.xrender=true

to your idea64.vmoptions

It improves antialiasing on my Ubuntu 14.04, Gnome Shell, Oracle JDK 7 slightly. It's not a big difference, still quite far from Eclipse, but it makes it better.

You can also try on, and lcd options instead of gasp. Some users report it makes a difference (for me, on and gasp seem to work the same, and lcd doesn't change anything).

I don't see any difference with Oracle JDK 8.

If you're using OpenJDK, you might need to patch it.

See http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-57233#

Update:

For Oracle JDK 8, removing -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=gasp improves the rendering a bit for me on Ubuntu 14.10