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Whatever issue you’ve got with the Look & Feel in Ubuntu 12.04 PP, running Netbeans, you can set the LAF native look & Feel instead of the GTK one (which has by the way several issues under Linux).

SOLUTION 1

Go to your netbeans directory (ex: /home/user/netbeans7.2/etc) and open the file : netbeans.conf

then add the following line to netbeans options:
-J-Dswing.aatext=true -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd --laf Metal

Start Netbeans and it should look like this:

Remark:
You can achieve the same result running netbeans with sudo command:

sudo sh /home/youruserhomename/netbeans-7.2.1/bin/netbeans

But this is not recommended.

Or by running netbeans with LAF parameter:

SOLUTION 2:

if you really want to keep the GTK look and feel for netbeans, then you have to modify the default general interface font in Ubuntu :

To something else than Ubuntu regular font which is bolder than the other usual fonts. Choose Sans or Droid Sans.

SOLUTION 3:

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