Luckily, this thread showed the solution: turn off Direct3D support in Java. Don't ask me why this should be a problem, but it seems to be. Must be something with my drivers.
I just had to insert some Text into the startup script
dbvis, right down at the bottom:
$INSTALL4J_JAVA_PREFIX "$app_java_home/bin/java" \
... -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false \
-Dinstall4j.jvmDir="$app_java_home" ...The above is one line in the script, I just formatted it to be easier readable. The part to insert reads
-Dsun.java2d.d3d=false.Just put it anywhere in that line. Restart DbVis and the problem is gone!