Why the keyboard get locked somtimes when I use Netbeans on Linux ?

Question

Hi,

I am using Netbeans to develop a Ruby on Rails application. Unfortunately I have a problem with it.

Sometimes the keyboard stop working and I can not input code in the text editor. Also the keyboard short cut specific to netbeans stop working as well (such as ctrl + s) Nevertheless, the Ubuntu keyboard short cut still work (alt + tab ...)

The only solution I found is to maximize/unmaximize the window of the text editor or switch tab.

Does anybody has the same problem and knows how to fix it ?

Thanks !

Answer 1

This probably isn't a proper SO question, but have you tried switching from the community version of Java to the Sun version (or the other way around)?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java

Answer 2

It is not netbeans related... it is Java Swing:

This is the bug report...

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6506617