Hi Klerman, I have been happily using NetBeans with 4k displays for a few years now, albeit on physically large external monitors, not small laptop displays.
One of the tips that is often missed is to make sure that you are running NetBeans with a base JDK (netbeans_jdkhome) version > 8. JDK 9 brought support for HiDPI graphics, see https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/263 I am running NetBeans 11+ on JDK 13 with 2160 x 3840 (yes, portrait – actually two of those side by side) and scaled to +175%. With those settings I no longer need to change –fontSize in netbeans.conf Hope this helps ;-) J From: Don <don.albert...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, 07 September, 2020 12:51 To: users@netbeans.apache.org Subject: Re: NetBeans 12 and 4K monitor I feel your pain. When I got my XPS-13 it had Ubuntu 16 installed. It has since been upgraded to 18. The XPS-13 by itself is good for taking to meetings (when they were in-person). When I use Netbeans (or anything with a largish display pattern) I use the external monitor and a USB keyboard/mouse. Don On 9/7/20 1:38 AM, Klerman wrote: Hello, I recently changed to this Dell XPS 13 which has a high resolution monitor and Ubuntu 20.04. My settings are 3840X2160, 300%. I installed NetBeans 12.0 and to my surprise, it's practically unusable in this machine, as it's unable to adapt itself to these scales and the resolutions. I Googled for a solution, and the two I found all recommend to edit the netbeans.conf file. Using the locate command, I found two of these files in this system: /home/me/.local/share/Trash/files/netbeans.conf and /snap/netbeans/30/netbeans/etc/netbeans.conf The file in the snap folder is readonly, and I can't find the way to make it writable. The chmod command leaves it untouched. The file in the home folder seems not to have any effect on NetBeans. Could anyone please point me to the solution of this problem ?. Many thanks in advance, Klerman. -- Klerman Gutierrez. Cel. / Mov.: +58 414 5320193 http://www.flickr.com/photos/rimlit www.facebook.com/klerman<http://www.facebook.com/klerman>
