Invisible text in Intellij IDEA

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So basically I moved with my .IntellijIdea13 directory to new system (from Ubuntu to Arch), run IDE only once on new system and it worked ok if I remember correctly. However after some customization of the new system (installed new fonts, changed default terminal font... I don't know if this is related but who knows), I run Intellij and it looks like this:

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Text is invisible, with few exceptions that are probably not actual fonts but some images I guess. Any ideas how can I fix this? I pretty much cannot navigate through menus, but maybe I can change something in config files in .IntellijIdea13? Any suggestions?

Added #1: This seems to be unrelated to IDEA settings, as even when I remove .IntellijIdea13 directory - the problem persists. So it is something wrong with java?

$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_60"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.0) (Arch Linux build 7.u60_2.5.0-2-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.60-b09, mixed mode)

see: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/138376/why-all-the-text-is-invisible-in-intellij — pawb4r, Jun 23 '14 at 19:50
Yes, this is exactly the same problem, can be flagged as duplicate :) . — Łukasz Zaroda, Jun 23 '14 at 20:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 15 '14 at 06:27

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Go to the Project Settings >> Appearance >>

Check for the options of theme , that may help you back with the original color and make things visiable

answered Jul 15 '14 at 06:27

BSrinivas

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 27 '18 at 11:20

On Ubuntu XFCE (IntelliJ 2017.3, Dracula theme) I tried various things but found overriding the default font did the job...

Go to: File -> Settings -> Appearance & Behavior -> Appearance -> Override default fonts by (not recommended): DejaVu Sans Restart IntelliJ

Invisible text in Intellij IDEA

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