Font on Ubuntu becomes funky with the JRE bundled with 2017 EAP (can be fixed with JRE from IDEA 2016)
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I installed EAP because I need Vue.js support. However, the font became visibly funky, as can be seen on the left, as compared with the normal IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2016.3 on the right.
I copied the bundled jre from 2016.3 to EAP and the problem was solved. Curiously, both `release` files in the jre folders show exactly:
JAVA_VERSION="1.8.0_112"
OS_NAME="Linux"
OS_VERSION="2.6"
OS_ARCH="amd64"
SOURCE=""
so I really don't know what the difference is.
Hopefully this issue will not carry over to the actual releases of IntelliJ 2017 products. If a problem was already fixed in 2016, it shouldn't regress.

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https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JRE-234 looks related.