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This is a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04, I just installed Netbeans and fonts are half visible. How to fix it?

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  • Possibly it requires some specific font which is not installed in Ubuntu by default. Maybe ask at their site about it. Or take a chance and install `ttf-mscorefonts-installer`. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Aug 15 '16 at 12:39

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You're using Ubuntu Gnome's default font Cantarell. Though I like this font, but it's Line Height is a bit higher, which is causing the menu label wrapping.

Install gnome-tweak-tool and change the font to something other than Cantarell. You can try Ubuntu font or install fonts-croscore package and use Arimo font, which is a great substitute of the Arial font.

In General, You can use this nice openjdk8 patch for Java applications in Linux to overcome java's classic non-antialiased ugly looks. The problem is this patch only works for OpenJDK8 as far as I know.

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For me this issue start happening when I migrate from Unity in Ubuntu to Gnome Shell.

I used the gnome-tweak-tool as @Anwar suggested, but instead of changing the font, I just changed the scaling factor from 1 to 0.96 and it got fixed.

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