PS: Possibly/probably something to do with permissions in the folder where you unzipped the ZIP containing NetBeans.
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 22:51, Geertjan Wielenga < geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > You claim to be “far from the noob”, yet you had to be told to refresh the > userdir and you haven’t provided a description of your environment, e.g., > the JDK you’re using. What gives? > > Gj > > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 22:38, Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote: > >> I did delete my userdir and restarted NB. >> >> Authentication request is now gone, but I still can’t change menu fonts. >> >> I tried to set it to size 12, 10 and even 5. No affect whatsoever. >> >> See attached screenshot. >> >> >> >> *From:* Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> >> *Sent:* Monday, March 4, 2019 8:32 PM >> *To:* Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> >> *Cc:* NetBeans Mailing List <users@netbeans.apache.org> >> *Subject:* Re: Trying out NB10 >> >> >> >> Can you start with a fresh user directory? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Gj >> >> >> >> On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 04:03, Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote: >> >> My previous laptop broke, so I got completely new one and trying to build >> my development environment from scratch. >> >> Instead of NB8.2 which was working for me (with some glitches) for >> several years I got the latest Netbeans 10 from netbeans.apache.org >> >> First start was unsuccessful. It displayed the start page and froze. Did >> not respond to anything. I had to kill the process through the task manager. >> >> Second attempt was a bit better. At least it did not freeze. However, all >> menus were displayed in huge font that occupy half of the screen. >> >> I went to Options->Fonts and Colors and tried to change the font from >> size 27 to size 12. I was not able to do that as Netbeans popped me >> “Authentication Required” >> >> window. No idea why it require authentication but I wasn’t able to do it. >> I tried my login credentials or the one I used to register a while back on >> netbeans.org but neither worked. >> >> Same thing happened when I tried to change some other settings. Can some >> kind soul tell me how do I authenticate there. >> >> For the same reason I wasn’t able to download a single plugin. Download >> failed due to connection problems with plugin portal. When I tried to check >> proxy settings I got the same >> >> “Authentication Required”. >> >> So far NB10 wasn’t useful for me. >> >> I am far from the noob, only with Netbeans I am working for 20 years >> (even before Sun Microsystems acquired it), but this release looks >> half-baked to me. >> >> I do understand that Apache incubation will cause some disturbances, but >> did not expect so many problems. >> >>
