The SO question is indeed outdated, it´d be great if someone with enough reputation could leave a comment.
On NB 12.4 copying it to this location worked: ~/snap/netbeans/common/data/12.4/etc/netbeans.conf But since NB 13 it seems to not use the "common" folder, and use a non semVer versioning for folders Help -> About: [image: image.png] [image: image.png] Here, 58 = NB 13 So my current working editable netbeans.conf is ~/snap/netbeans/58/etc/netbeans.conf (~/snap/netbeans/current/etc/netbeans.conf) Hope this helps the OP. It's A little hard to get right, but worth it to set stuff like the JDK and IDE font size (--fontsize 13 in netbeans_default_options ) On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 11:13 AM Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 5/25/22 06:08, Stroud Custer wrote: > > I took the sage advice of several of the responders to this question and > installed the Oracle version of Java 18.0.1.1 into my home directory. I > did not have success with placing a modified netbeans.conf in the > netbeans/etc file located in the snap directory in my home directory. > > I'm curious, what went wrong there? Have you followed my instructions or > the one on Stackoverflow (that one is outdated and does not work on > NetBeans 13)? > > I'd not recommend this desktop file workaround to anyone. The file would > need to be updated every release. > > > To get netbeans to use the newly installed JDK when invoked from the KDE > menu, I edited the netbeans_netbeans.desktop file in > /var/lib/snapd/desktop/application to add the --jdkhome parm as shown below. > > Thanks to everyone who responded to this issue. I guess I will have to > educate myself on snap. > > > [Desktop Entry] > X-SnapInstanceName=netbeans > Type=Application > Name=Apache NetBeans 13 > Comment=Apache NetBeans, The Smarter Way to Code > Exec=env > BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/netbeans_netbeans.desktop > /snap/bin/netbeans %F *--jdkhome jdk-18.0.1.1* > Categories=Development;IDE > Icon=/snap/netbeans/58/meta/gui/icon.png > Terminal=false > StartupWMClass=Apache NetBeans IDE 13 > > -- *- Juan Algaba*
