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Tuning Intellij Idea

First of all consider changing idea.vmoptions. idea.vmoptions is a text file with a list of JVM settings, it’s usually found in the bin folder in the Idea installation folder. This file can be open in any text editor. The following settings increase performance drastically on Sun JVM 1.6: -server -Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=250m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=64m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+AggressiveOpts [...]

Ugly Netbeans font rendering on Ubuntu Linux

Netbeans fonts rendering may look ugly on the latest Ubuntu. The following configuration does the trick for me (file $netbeans/etc/netbeans.conf, see part in bold): # Options used by NetBeans launcher by default, can be overridden by explicit # command line switches: 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-Dswing.aatext=true -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd_hrgb” Checked with openjdk, it probably [...]