Arch Linux

Description: the package intellij-idea-community-edition relies on generally available JDK packages available in Arch. In general this approach is fine. I'm working with this package for a year now and I'm very productive. Anyway I experienced some issues during my 12 month experience.

1. General: Font Size is very small in Idea.
2. Very strange but rare: two times spaces were not visible in the editor. They were just skipped.
3. Latest issue: Markdown Preview based on the JetBrains Markdown plugin does not work. It states unter Settings > Languages & Frameworks > Markdown: "There are no available preview providers."

Due to the Markdown issue I started to do some research and what I found at Jetbrains was something I stumbled across before: "Do you use the integrated JDK deliverd with Idea?". I didn't mind first and tried to solve the issue by installing javafx in addition to the JDK delivered by Arch. Anyway this did not change anything.

So I returned to the "integrated JDK" called JBR. I downloaded Intellij IDEA from JetBrains, extracted just the subfolder jbr and copied that to my dev environment. I set the env variable IDEA_JDK and started Idea. Here are the results:

Ad 1: Font Size is now just normal.
Ad 2: not sure, because it was a very rare issue I was not able to reproduce yet.
Ad 3: Markdown Preview works fine.

So my question is: why the Intellij Idea package for Arch Linux doesn't provide the JBR?

Thank you for your support.

Kind regards,

Tobias