Dark theme in Netbeans 7 or 8

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Is there a way to have a dark theme in Netbeans

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Netbeans 8  Tools - gt  Options - gt  Appearance  Look  amp  Feel Tab    NetBeans - gt  Preferences - gt  Appearance  Look  amp  Feel Tab  on OS X   Netbeans 7 x  Tools - gt  Plugins - gt  Available - gt  Dark Look and Feel - Install this plugin   Once this plugin is installed  restarting netbeans should automatically switch to Dark Metal   There are 2 themes that comes with this plugin - Dark Metal  amp  Dark Nimbus  In order to switch themes  use the below option    Tools - gt  Options - gt  Miscellaneous - gt  Windows - gt  Preferred Look  amp  Feel option

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u can use Dark theme Plugin  Tools   Plugin   Dark theme and Feel   and it is work

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Darcula  UPDATE 2016-02  NetBeans 8 now has a Darcula plugin  better and more complete than the alternatives discussed in old version of this Answer     The attractive and productive Darcula theme in JetBrains IntelliJ is now available in NetBeans 8 0  amp  8 1    The Real Thing  This plugin provides the real Darcula  not an imitation   Konstantin Bulenkov of the JetBrains company open-sourced the Darcula look-and-feel originally built for the IntelliJ IDE  This NetBeans plugin discussed here wraps that original implementation  adapting it to NetBeans  So we see close fidelity to the original Darcula   By the way  there are many other reasons beyond Darcula to use IntelliJ     both IntelliJ and NetBeans are truly excellent and amazing products    This NetBeans plugin is itself open-source as well   Installation  Comes in two parts     A plugin A Fonts  amp  Colors profile   Plugin  The plugin Darcula LAF for NetBeans is easily available through the usual directory within NetBeans    Choose Tools   Plugins  On the Available Plugins tab  scroll or search for  Darcula LAF for NetBeans   As per usual  check the checkbox and click the Install button  Restart NetBeans     Profile   In NetBeans   Preferences   Fonts  amp  Colors  tab    Profile  popup menu   choose the new Darcula item  Click the Apply button    I suggest also hitting Duplicate in case you ever make any modifications  discussed below       Fix overly-bright background colors  You may find the background color of lines of code may be too bright such as lines marked with a breakpoint  or the currently executing line in the debugger  These are categories listed on the Annotations tab of the Fonts  amp  Colors tab    Of course you can change the background color of each Category manually but that is tedious    Workaround  Click the Restore button found to the right of the Profile name  Double-check to make sure you have Darcula as the selected Profile of course  Then click the Apply and OK buttons at the bottom     Font  You may want to change the font in the method editor  I most highly recommend the commercial font for programmers  PragmataPro  For a free-of-cost and open-source font  the best is Hack  Hack was built on the very successful DejaVu font which in turn was built on Bitstream Vera   To change the font  add these steps to the above to duplicate the profile as a backup before making your modification    Click the Duplicate button  Save the duplicate with a different name such as appending your name Example     Darcula - Juliette     Click the Apply button     While in that same Fonts  amp  Colors tab  select Default in the Category list and hit the     button to choose a font   You might also want to change the font seen in the Output and the Terminal panes  From that Fonts  amp  Colors tab  switch to the sibling tab Miscellaneous  Then see both the Output tab and the Terminal tab   Experience So Far  While still new I am reserving final judgement on Darcula  So far  so good  Already the makers have had a few updates fixing a few glitches  so that is good to see  This seems to be a very thorough product  As a plugin this affects the entire user interface of NetBeans  that can be very tricky to get right    There was a similar plugin product predating Darcula  the    Dark Look And Feel Themes    plugin  While I was grateful to use that for a while  I am much happier with Darcula  That other one was more clunky and I had to spend much time tweaking colors of    Norway Today    to work together  Also  that plugin was not savvy with Mac OS X menus so the main Mac menu bar was nearly empty while NetBeans    own menu bar was embedded within the window  The Darcula plugin has no such problem  the Mac menu bar appears normally     The rest of this Answer is left intact for history  and for alternatives if Darcula proves problematic      NetBeans 8     Dark Editor  At least in NetBeans 8 0  two dark profiles are now built-in  Profile names    Norway Today City Lights   The profiles affect only the code editing pane  not the entire NetBeans user-interface  That should mean much less risk of side-effects and bugs than a plugin   Norway Today    City Lights    Tip  You can alter the font in either theme  while preserving the other aspects  Perhaps Menlo on a Mac  or its parent DejaVu  Or my fav  the commercial font Pragmata   Unfortunately  neither theme suits my eyes  They do not begin to compare to the excellent Darcula theme in JetBrains IntelliJ   Choose Profile in Font Settings  On a Mac  the menu path is Netbeans   Preferences   Fonts  amp  Colors  tab    Profile  popup menu    On other host operating systems  the menu path may be Tools   Options   Fonts  amp  Colors  Not sure  but it was so in previous versions

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There is no more plugin in netbeans 12  In case someone comes to this page  Tools- gt Options- gt Appearance- gt Look and feel- gt Flatlaf Dark

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And then there is the original plugin ez-on-da-ice  Better yet  you can complain to me directly if there are issues  I promise you  I am mostly very responsive      http   plugins netbeans org plugin 40985 ez-on-da-ice

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On Mac Netbeans 8 0 2 Tools - gt  Plugins - gt  type in search  Dark Look and Feel  Then install plugin  NOTE  There is no  quot Option quot  Or  quot Appearance quot  in the  quot Tools quot  section in Netbeans 8 0 2

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