How to make the default font size bigger
Sometimes I need to increase the default font used in NetBeans. For example for a presentaion. Fortunatelly it's simple to change the default font size used in editor, menus, dialogs, etc. You can run NetBeans with argument --fontsize xx, where xx is the required size. The --fontsize argument applies to fonts used in menus, dialogs and most components in the IDE.
You can run NetBeans with --fontsize from command line:
on Windows:netbeans.exe --fontsize 14on a linux machine:
netbeans --fontsize 14 Or you can set this option permanently in netbeans.conf file.
Gnome Specific
If you are running NetBeans under Gnome with the GTK L&F, then NetBeans uses the default Gnome settings including font size. If you want to change the font size for NetBeans you must change font size in Gnome Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts. Alternatively you can use Metal L&F with --fontsize option. Use --laf jvax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel to run with Metal.
