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I'm usually "minimizing" the output window in NetBeans. With 6.9 (and all other versions before that) the window will pop up when I start my application and show the output, then when clicking into the editor with the mouse, this will automatically minimize the output window again. Not so with the current 7.0 dev builds (just tried Build 201101290000) The Output window will only be minimized when it loses its focus or when explicitely hitting Ctrl-0 (zero) When the Window never gets the focus (which is the usual case when it's displayed during application run), clicking into the editor will not minimize the output window (which kind of defeats the "minimize" purpose as it overlays the editor). Currently my workaround is to use Ctrl-0 to active the editor rather than using the mouse. From my point of view, this change in behaviour is a bug.
The behavior has changed, because the original fix was wrong. It needs to be fixed in the Window system. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 159356 ***