diff --git a/app/src/processing/app/linux/Platform.java b/app/src/processing/app/linux/Platform.java
index 7f227596f..496e926ae 100644
--- a/app/src/processing/app/linux/Platform.java
+++ b/app/src/processing/app/linux/Platform.java
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public class Platform extends processing.app.Platform {
     // This is available in Java 1.4.2 and later, and it can't possibly
     // be any worse than Metal. (Ocean might also work, but that's for
     // Java 1.5, and we aren't going there yet)
-    UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel");
+    //UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel");
   }
 
 
diff --git a/build/linux/dist/arduino b/build/linux/dist/arduino
index 3137595d2..b689b52d1 100755
--- a/build/linux/dist/arduino
+++ b/build/linux/dist/arduino
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 
 export PATH="${APPDIR}/java/bin:${PATH}"
 
-java processing.app.Base
+java -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel processing.app.Base