Swing components rendered incorrectly with Nimbus Look and Feel on SLES 11

SYNOPSIS
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Swing components rendered incorrectly with Nimbus Look and Feel on SLES 11

OPERATING SYSTEM
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SLES 11 SP2
Not reproducible on other platforms/distributions

FULL JDK VERSION
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JDK 8 (tested with b83)
Also reproducible with JDK 7 when XRender is explicitly enabled.

DESCRIPTION
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Swing components (Menu bar, scroll bar, button etc.) are rendered incorrectly with Nimbus Look and Feel on SLES 11.

See attached screenshots for reference.

REPRODUCTION INSTRUCTIONS
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1. Run the SwingSet2 demo

     java -jar <java_home>/demo/jfc/SwingSet2/SwingSet2.jar

2. Select "nimbus" look and feel. (Menu: Look & Feel > Nimbus Look and Feel)

3. Click on any tab and check the GUI

4. Note the poorly formed buttons/scrollbars/MenuBars.

WORKAROUND:
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Disable XRender pipeline by setting -Dsun.java2d.xrender=false on the command line