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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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  • Have you installed xubuntu-restricted-extras? You will need to first enable multiverse in your Software Sources. That will install a lot of Microsoft fonts for you. – DK Bose Feb 28 '14 at 05:59
  • How did you install Consolas? You may want to install it manually by copying the relevant files from a Windows installation. – landroni Feb 28 '14 at 07:15
  • I've installed ubuntu-restricted-extras, and yes, I've installed Consolas manually. Expand on relevant files; there's only one file you need. – Wulf Feb 28 '14 at 20:38

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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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  • The best answer I've found yet! Why doesn't Inconsolata have a normal style? It only allows italics, medium and others. The medium seems to be doing it. I guess it's just the nomenclature? – Wulf Mar 06 '14 at 00:14
  • medium is slightly bolder than normal. Perhaps the font author thought that normal would be too thin. – aquaherd Mar 06 '14 at 07:51