Bug 560984 - Unable to select a native font in editor pane.
Summary: Unable to select a native font in editor pane.
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 4.7.3   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2020-03-10 11:58 EDT by Matthew Hall CLA
Modified: 2020-03-12 06:06 EDT (History)
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Description Matthew Hall CLA 2020-03-10 11:58:37 EDT 
I refer to text in the default C/C++ editor pane.
Previous Eclipse CDT allowed us to choose a native font, that is, one that could be displayed without aliasing. We seem to have lost this capability - all fonts are now rendered at a scale that requires aliasing. Some developers find the blurring very distracting. Turning off aliasing (obviously) results in misshapen characters.

Linux:    Ubuntu 18.04
WM:       xfce4
display:  1920x1080

For an example of an un-alised font, try xterm.

Any suggestions welcome.
Comment 1 Rolf Theunissen CLA 2020-03-12 06:06:37 EDT 
Eclipse uses GTK to render on Linux. So this would depend on the ability of GTK and SWT/GTK to render bitmap fonts.

Another option would be installing a font that is hinted for binary rendering, no clue if there are any available.

Moving to SWT so they can comment on this.