Use Nimbus look and feel on Netbeans IDE 7.1.2

Question

In Netbeans IDE 7.1.2 by default i have three look and feel:

• Metal;
• CDE/Motif;
• GTK+.

Is it possible to add the Nimbus or other look and feel? Thanks. (i downloaded the Netbeans 7.3 but there are still the three look and feel cited above)

Answer 1

Do you want to use the L&F for netbeans or your program?

To set Nimbus for NetBeans you can start it with the commandline argument --laf:

   ./netbeans --laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel

(or netbeans exe on windows)

To make this permanent add the line mentioned above to netbeans.conf, line netbeans_default_options= (path of the file: <netbeans path>/etc/).

Btw. Nimbus requires at least Java 6 update 10.