Netbeans 12.1 menu fonts too small, --fontsize no longer works in /etc/netbeans.conf for Ubuntu 20.04

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Netbeans 12.1 no longer respects the --fontsize directive in the /etc/netbeans.conf config file.

The menu fonts are way too small on a large screen.

Yet setting Preferences->LXQt Settings->Font->Point size in the Ubuntu control menu, which is normally respected by most Unix app windows, does not carry through either.

And although Netbeans's Tools->Options->Fonts & Colors->Profile: NetBeans->Syntax->All Languages->Default -> Font setting changes the font for the code itself inside the editor, it doesn't change the IDE menus.

You would think, after all these years, that there would be a command inside the Options to change the menu font size, but it's still not there yet. And now editing config to change the --fontsize startup option is no longer respected.

How best to change the size of all the system fonts in the Netbeans IDE display environment?

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4 Answers

The best solution I've found so far is to change the Look & Feel.

Invoking aptitude install netbeans currently (Sept '20) gives version 10, which breaks with a jcraft/jsch error, also "could not successfully run the /usr/bin/g++ compiler" on my system even though g++ is perfectly fine and protections cleared, also "Build Host not connected", after C++ is installed from the 8.2 repository. Tastes like some kind of jdk error (I've got /usr/lib/jvm both 8 and 11 jdks installed, hard to believe it can't find them). But if the install doesn't work right out of the box, it's a bad sign. So I tried snap install netbeans --classic . This gets version 12.

Netbeans version 12 comes with the Metal Look & Feel configured by default. Changing this to the GTK+ look and feel, using Tools->Options->Appearance->Look and Feel->GTK+ with a restart, finally got the menus to the correct system size.

Unfortunately, the Help->About popup still does not respect this, having minuscule fonts. Perhaps there is a better way?

Although "Look and Feel" is an improvement, I would still like to see direct control of the IDE menu fonts. From the Options Fonts & Colors menu.

user_8414570

Running netbeans from commandline with an additional argument --fontsize 12 works for me. Open a console and go the bin directory of netbeans and use the command ./netbeans --fontsize 12. Change the font size to whatever suits you.

user_31421640

In Netbeans in Tools->Options->Appearance->Look and Feel, I could solve the problem. But in my case, the selected option already was GTK+. Changing to Metal solved it.

user_160380250

Install Netbeans 13.

It should help

user_20056800
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