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Bug 270602 - Issue with big resolutions (3840x2160)
Summary: Issue with big resolutions (3840x2160)
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: ide
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 8.2
Hardware: PC Windows 10 x64
: P1 normal (vote)
Assignee: issues@ide
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2017-05-09 21:30 UTC by antoniocs
Modified: 2020-07-05 10:26 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Screenshot of small ui (96.19 KB, image/png)
2017-05-09 21:30 UTC, antoniocs 		Details
Netbeans small startup screen compared with Firefox (584.41 KB, image/png)
2017-05-09 21:31 UTC, antoniocs 		Details
Netbeans vs Visual studio code (264.30 KB, image/png)
2017-05-09 21:48 UTC, antoniocs 		Details
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Description antoniocs 2017-05-09 21:30:32 UTC 
Created attachment 164286 [details]
Screenshot of small ui

Hey,

So I have this laptop with a resolution of 3840x2160 and that makes Netbeans UI become minuscule.

I have attached a screenshot and you can see that all the menus etc are completely unusable due to the small size.

Is there a way to fix this or is this a bug? I installed netbeans today on a clean install of windows 10 Pro 64bit

Product Version: NetBeans IDE 8.2 (Build 201609300101)
Updates: NetBeans IDE is updated to version NetBeans 8.2 Patch 1
Java: 1.8.0_101; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.101-b13
Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_101-b13
System: Windows 10 version 10.0 running on amd64; Cp1252; en_GB (nb)
Comment 1 antoniocs 2017-05-09 21:31:35 UTC 
Created attachment 164287 [details]
Netbeans small startup screen compared with Firefox
Comment 2 antoniocs 2017-05-09 21:32:19 UTC 
I have attached another screenshot so that you can see how small that startup screen is compared to Firefox, which is the browser I am using for posting this bug report.
Comment 3 antoniocs 2017-05-09 21:48:13 UTC 
Created attachment 164288 [details]
Netbeans vs Visual studio code

I have just installed visual studio code and set it next to Netbeans. 
You can clearly see how unusable netbeans is.

Please do something about this URGENTLY.
Netbeans is my go to editor but under these conditions I can't do any work.
Comment 4 antoniocs 2017-05-13 09:19:27 UTC 
Does anyone have any updates on this???

I have one issue that seem similar to this one:

- https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253761
Comment 5 Jiri Sedlacek 2017-05-15 12:27:07 UTC 
I don't have a high-dpi display to verify, but in general you should setup Java to support this configuration - see for example https://superuser.com/questions/988379/how-do-i-run-java-apps-upscaled-on-a-high-dpi-display or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30555401/java-disable-dpi-aware-not-working/39372897.

A quick workaround to just make the IDE fonts bigger is to start NetBeans with the fontsize parameter - http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqFontSize.
Comment 6 Christian Lenz 2020-07-05 10:26:51 UTC 
Please have a look at the new Apache NetBeans JIRA board. There were a lot of work for HiDPI support, e.g. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-765. Use the latest version of Apache NetBeans if possible.