#Netbeans 8.2 on elementary os install

I most highly recommend the commercial font for programmers, PragmataPro.

You may want to change the font in the method editor. Then click the Apply and OK buttons at the bottom. Double-check to make sure you have Darcula as the selected Profile of course. Workaround: Click the Restore button found to the right of the Profile name. Of course you can change the background color of each Category manually but that is tedious. These are categories listed on the Annotations tab of the Fonts & Colors tab. 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. I suggest also hitting Duplicate in case you ever make any modifications (discussed below).

In NetBeans > Preferences > Fonts & Colors (tab) > Profile (popup menu), choose the new Darcula item.

#Netbeans 8.2 on elementary os install

As per usual, check the checkbox and click the Install button. On the Available Plugins tab, scroll or search for 'Darcula LAF for NetBeans'. The plugin Darcula LAF for NetBeans is easily available through the usual directory within NetBeans.Ĭhoose Tools > Plugins. This NetBeans plugin is itself open-source as well. So we see close fidelity to the original Darcula. This NetBeans plugin discussed here wraps that original implementation, adapting it to NetBeans. Konstantin Bulenkov of the JetBrains company open-sourced the Darcula look-and-feel originally built for the IntelliJ IDE. This plugin provides the real Darcula, not an imitation.

The attractive and productive Darcula theme in JetBrains IntelliJ is now available in NetBeans 8.0 & 8.1! The Real Thing UPDATE 2016-02: NetBeans 8 now has a Darcula plugin, better and more complete than the alternatives discussed in old version of this Answer.