Netbeans Scaling on 4K Screen

Question

I got a new 4K Monitor and everything looks amazing but coding with NetBeans is difficult. The controls are very small and a java frame looks very small.

I've seen some Stackoverflow posts about this problem and they said I should add a line in the preferences file so that hi-dpi mode is disabled but my java frame is still small.

Answer 1

For those who land here in 2021.

I am using Netbeans 12.4 on Windows 10 and the solutions mentioned here did nothing for me.

What did work was setting the high DPI settings in Compatibility Mode like so:

Big thanks to the following post that set me on the right path, it offers a powershell command to do this automatically for all java exes: https://superuser.com/a/1276743/648833