Ignore Unity Theme for Java Application

[vni.jamie]

I have a java application (BlueVue Device Manager) that very poorly adapts to the dark theme I have running in Ubuntu-14.04

The application is opened through a shell script


#!/bin/bash

export BVDM_VERSION=1.7.13
export BVDMData=~/DManager


cd $BVDMData
java -cp "*" DMLauncher btConfigPath $BVDMData/cfg/ $@


Is there a way I can modify this script so that it doesn't attempt to use the dark theme I have running?

I tried the following to no avail (code adapted from http://askubuntu.com/questions/8336/how-can-one-make-firefox-ignore-my-gtk-theme-entirely)

#!/bin/bash

export BVDM_VERSION=1.7.13
export BVDMData=~/DManager


cd $BVDMData
env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc java -cp "*" DMLauncher btConfigPath $BVDMData/cfg/ $@




I suspect because my Ubuntu-14.04 LTS is using Unity instead of Gnome?


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Update:
I found this command to set the default look and feel from the command line when running a java application. (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/plaf.html)
`java -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKL ookAndFeel MyApp`

So I tried it with my startupApplication script


#!/bin/bash

export BVDM_VERSION=1.7.13
export BVDMData=~/DManager


cd $BVDMData
java -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.metal.Me talLookAndFeel -cp "*" DMLauncher btConfigPath $BVDMData/cfg/ $@

This didn't do the trick. I tried a couple other look and feel's (motif, gtk) but none of them seemed to have any affect on how the application was rendered.