I ran the demo from this jar: https://download.formdev.com/flatlaf/flatlaf-demo-latest.jar Adding "@foreground = #ff0000" did take effect - I got red font in various places.
Just had an epiphany: I have been adding "--fontsize 16" to netbeans.conf for years (old man, old eyes). I removed that and the "defaultFont=36" took effect. "--fontsize 16" must be overriding or inhibiting some of the FlatLaf settings. (A warning/error in this situation would be helpful.) Final contents of my ~/.netbeans/26/config/LookAndFeel/FlatLaf.properties file is: defaultFont = 16 Dialog, "Noto Sans", Roboto, Ubuntu, Arial, Monospace and is working just like I want it to. Also saves me a step updating netbeans.conf at upgrade time. Thanks all for the help! Suggestion: incorporate the FlatLaf demo/theme editor into NetBeans - making the changes on the fly and persisting them to ~/.netbeans/26/config/LookAndFeel/FlatLaf.properties (or wherever). Mitch Claborn On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM Neil C Smith <neilcsm...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 at 17:32, Mitch Claborn <i...@hatcherymanager.com> > wrote: > > The FlatLaf 3.6 demo works fine as far as changing font family and size. > It is not saving the font options between runs, but not sure if it is > supposed to. It does save the Theme selection. > > > > In the demo I did File > Open on > ~/.netbeans/26/config/LookAndFeel/FlatLaf.properties and did not see any > changes in the UI, but not sure if that is supposed to work or not. > > Can you confirm whether you're using the zip or the Snap or something else? > > Just to make sure it's not something weird in font configuration, try > adding this in your NetBeans file - > > @foreground = #ff0000 > > That should be obvious whether the file is being picked up or not. > > Best wishes, > > Neil >
