NetBeans IDE scaling on Windows 8/10

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mmvsbg picture mmvsbg · May 14, 2014 · Viewed 74.9k times · Source

I'm trying to run NetBeans under Windows 8.1 on a screen with a high DPI. Windows itself has scaling enabled to 400% and everything else looks just fine.

However, when I start NetBeans, it runs as if there's no scaling enabled and I just see tiny little letters in the IDE. I did check the properties under which the IDE starts and they do have "Enable scaling for this program" checked.

I could increase font size in the editor and the error log, which would at least enable me to view what I'm typing on the screen, however, all menus, side-bars, panels, etc, remain very small which is very uncomfortable trying to work with. So any idea how I can make NetBeans scale with Windows 8.1? Currently using NetBeans 8.0.

Answer

Lucas picture Lucas · Jun 13, 2014
  • Open C:\Program Files\NetBeans 8.0\etc\netbeans.conf
  • Change -J-Dsun.java2d.dpiaware=true to -J-Dsun.java2d.dpiaware=false

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