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My Eclipse IDE looks horrible ever since I installed Xubuntu.

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This question was never answered, but it's exactly what I have trouble with: Fonts look bad in Microsoft Office using Wine

My eclipse font is also a windows font Consolas. I'm really used to it, and I'd love to get it back.

EDIT: Here's another unanswered question related to windows fonts: Fonts in Google Earth look bad even after installing Microsoft Fonts.

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I can't give you a fully qualified answer here but some hints:

  • Windows core fonts are heavily optimized for Windows. They look slightly off everywhere else.
  • The width of boldface and regular is different in most fixed-width fonts. Reconfigure your eclipse appearance settings so that no boldface is used or try 'ubuntu mono' which just works.
  • Droid Sans Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono are also viable alternatives to the Sans Mono default.
  • The Inconsolata font tries to reach the Consolas experience under Linux.
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