Yeah, for a while it was some work to get it working though. Not jEdit's fault, but the JVMs/system defaults. The distro packaging wasn't great for a while, you would often get something fairly broken if you just went with the defaults.
It was really hideous. My first thought when reading the title was remembering how terrible it was and thinking "yuuuuck"
Jeez, considering the author is in this thread perhaps you could be a little more polite.
I apologize to the author but I was simply stating my experience with the software. There are countless pieces of software I have used with barely a memory. But this one in particular just prompted a visceral reaction from my usage