How to increase size of GUI/font/everything of Oracle SQL Developer 18.1
I guess this is a subjective statement — but that doesn’t appear SMALL to me.
However, if you’re using an OS accessibility feature to increase the size of text in your applications, the new ‘Welcome Page’ can interfere with that.
Uncheck ‘show on startup’ in the Welcome page
Restart SQL Developer.
You should be good.
The Welcome page uses JavaFX to render some HTML and this is apparently getting in the way due to a Java bug. We’re looking to mitigate or fix this for a future release.
If that doesn’t work, you can also try to actually increase the UI font size.
I talk about how to do that here
This is what it looks like bumped up to font size 14
Find your ide.properties file.
Windows: It’s in your OS User’s AppData, Roaming, SQL Developer, systemX.Y.Z. o.sqldeveloper directory where X.Y.Z. represents your version of SQL Developer.
Linux/Mac: It’s in your $HOME/.sqldeveloper, systemX.Y.Z, o.sqldeveloper directory.
You’ll notice this file is VERY well documented. There’s a section that speaks to Windows in particular. To change the default size for all look and feels, add this line, the uncommented one:
2018 Update
On my 4k Mac Mini (2018 build if that matters):
- Oracle 8 JDK
- SQL Developer 18.3
- Mac OS X look and feel
- Ide.FontSize=21
This is how SQL Developer looks:
I also faced a similar issue when installed this on Windows 10. The issue has to do with compatibility settings.
How to Change the UI Font Size for Oracle SQL Developer
And here’s a look at what it looks like when I bump the font size up to 14:
And here’s where to set that property
In Windows, you want to to go to the Application Data, Roaming Users directory that stores the settings files for SQL Developer. On my machine that’s here:
C:\Users\jdsmith\AppData\Roaming\SQL Developer\system4.1.0.13.75\o.sqldeveloper.12.2.0.13.75
Note: my version string at the end might be a different than yours depending on your version of SQL Developer.
You want to open ide.properties. You’ll notice it is VERY well documented. There’s a section that speaks to Windows in particular. To change the default size for all look and feels, add this line, the uncommented one:
If you think 14 looks huge, one of my co-workers has his set to 21!
This doesn’t control the font size for text in the editors and the data grids
We have a preference in the UI for that.
In the next version, we’ll add a UI preference for this setting as well. But for now you can set this on your own pretty easily – once you know how!
Как увеличить размер GUI/шрифта/всего Oracle SQL Developer 18.1
Я загрузил Windows 64-bit с JDK 8, входящим в состав SQL Developer 18.1.
Чтобы запустить Oracle SQL Developed, я просто распаковал файл и запустил sqldeveloper.exe, содержащийся в папке.
К сожалению, как вы можете видеть на изображении, размер всего чрезвычайно мал и очень трудно увидеть. 
Эта проблема возникает исключительно с этим программным обеспечением.
Как я могу это решить?
Я также столкнулся с аналогичной проблемой при установке этого в Windows 10. Проблема связана с настройками совместимости.
Я исправил его в соответствии с приведенными ниже шагами:
Получить ярлык sqldeveloper на рабочем столе Убедитесь, что у вас есть права администратора на вашем ПК
Щелкните правой кнопкой sqldeveloper значке sqldeveloper и перейдите на вкладку Совместимость:
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Режим совместимости меняет его на окна 7 Проверьте опцию Override high DPI scaling beaviour Выберите «Система» в раскрывающемся списке ниже
Я предполагаю, что это субъективное выражение, но это не кажется МАЛЕНЬКОЙ для меня.
Однако, если вы используете функцию доступности ОС, чтобы увеличить размер текста в ваших приложениях, новая «приветственная страница» может помешать этому.
Снимите флажок «показывать при запуске» на странице приветствия
Перезапустите SQL Developer.
Вы должны быть хорошими.
Страница приветствия использует JavaFX для отображения некоторого HTML, и это, по-видимому, мешает из-за ошибки Java. Мы хотим смягчить или исправить это для будущей версии.
Если это не сработает, вы также можете попытаться увеличить размер шрифта пользовательского интерфейса.
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Back to Basics: Changing the Font Setting in SQL Developer
An ongoing request in SQL Developer is to have the ability to update the font size in a Data Grid. In the all the releases up to and including SQL Developer 2.1, you can’t change the font in the data grid, you can control the full IDE font and the font for the editors, but that’s it. Well SQL Developer 2.1.1 has an update to that.
I wrote about changing fonts when we first started SQL Developer, so I’m going to recap the functionality before adding the 2.1.1 tidbit.
The thing about the fonts in SQL Developer is that they essentially controlled through the underlying framework or IDE. (now more commonly referred to as the Fusion Client Platform). So to change the font for the full product, that is the Navigators, Menus, Dialogs and so on, you need to shutdown the product update the font for the IDE, which is locates the ide.properties file in the system folder.This system folder is created the first time you start SQL Developer and, by default, is located in the C:\Documents and Settings\ \Application Data\SQL Developer\system2.1.1.64.38\ folder. Once you have located your system folder, find the sub folder o.sqldeveloper.11.1.1.64.38 (this is the latest SQL Developer 2.1.1 patch, but you can browse the the version of the product you are working with). Edit the ide.properties file and uncomment the FontSize propert. So change
# Ide.FontSize=11 to your font size of choice, for example;Restart SQL Developer.
Notice that this does not affect the SQL Worksheet and Data Grids. Once you are back in SQL Developer select Tools > Preferences. Expand the Code Editor node in the tree and select Font. Changing this font setting increases the size of the font for any of the code editors. In SQL Developer 2.1.1, changing this font size also affect the output of the SQL Worksheet script output and the Data Grids.
Of course, there are lots of folk who just want the Editors and Data Grids to be resized, in which case, you don’t need to edit the ide.properties file.
This has been a much request feature on our Exchange, I hope the update helps those of you who have been looking for this support.