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If you want to debug the file filter changing of a JFileChooser the whole desktop (tested both with KDE and GNOME) freezes. The only recovery is to switch to a text console and kill NetBeans or the debugged process. This way debugging file filter changes is just impossible! I will attach a test case with more instructions to reproduce the bug.
Created attachment 46479 [details] test case for this bug
OK, here are the instructions: - open the attached test case - set a breakpoint at line 31 (the System.out.println() statement) - debug the test case - when the debugger is running switch the file filter to "XML files" - notice that from now on the desktop does no longer accepts any input from mouse or keyboard (this is the ugly bug) Interestingly it is still possible to switch away from the desktop with the Ctrl+Alt+Fx hot keys and kill NetBeans...
This is a known limitation of debugging on X-windows. See: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6517045 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 93076 ***
I've updated debugging FAQs, see the solution provided at http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/FaqDebuggingAWTXWindows
Verified ... and Closing all issues resolved into NetBeans 6.7 and earlier.