How to make Nimbus as default look and feel of NetBeans ?

jdk6u10 has a new laf class named Nimbus. It is very clean and nice. Netbeans 6.5 has support of Nimbus for Java Desktop Application.

To set your application’s look and feel to Nimbus:

Right-click on your project in the Projects pane on the left side of the screen and select “Properties” on the pop-up menu. Project Properties window will appear. Click “Application” and click “Desktop App” in the Categories pane. You will see Look & Feel drop-down menu. Select “com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel” and click “OK” button.

To set you Netbeans deafult look and feel to Nimbus:

Open netbeans.conf file. It is usualy located at;

(for Linux)

/usr/local/netbeans-6.5/etc/netbeans.conf

(for Windows)

C:\Program Files\NetBeans 6.5\etc\netbeans.conf

and add this parameter –laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel to netbeans_default_options section in netbeans.conf

It should look something like this;

netbeans_default_options=”-J-client -J-Xverify:none -J-Xss2m -J-Xms32m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=200m -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true –laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel”