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This bug occurs only when using Java8. No problem with Java7. FYI I'm using jVi. I don't see the text cursor in the text editor. I only known on which line it is thanks to the Current Line Highlighting feature. When I move it up/down, the highlight of the current line is correct, but I don't see the text cursor. Sometimes, the cursor blinks one or two times just after moving it, then it disappears. This also occurs in the Terminal window. When this window is not focused, the text cursor is displayed after the shell prompt using an empty rectangle. When I click on the terminal window to give it focus, the text cursor becomes a plain rectangle then disappears.
Can you please attach messages.log from Netbeans. What is your operating system, what is java version and Netbeans version. Thank you
I just installed Java8 again on my system, and I can't reproduce this bug anymore.
I observe the same problem here, the "About" says: Product Version: NetBeans IDE 8.0 (Build 201403101706) Updates: NetBeans IDE is updated to version NetBeans 8.0 Patch 2 Java: 1.8.0_05; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.5-b02 Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_05-b13 System: Linux version 3.14.8-100.fc19.x86_64 running on amd64; ANSI_X3.4-1968; en_US (nb) User directory: /home/bram/.netbeans/8.0 Cache directory: /home/bram/.cache/netbeans/8.0 This was when started from the KDE menu. When I start from the command line with /usr/local/netbeans-8.0/bin/netbeans the problem seems gone, and "About" has: Product Version: NetBeans IDE 8.0 (Build 201403101706) Updates: NetBeans IDE is updated to version NetBeans 8.0 Patch 2 Java: 1.8.0_05; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.5-b02 Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_05-b13 System: Linux version 3.14.8-100.fc19.x86_64 running on amd64; UTF-8; en_US (nb) User directory: /home/bram/.netbeans/8.0 Cache directory: /home/bram/.cache/netbeans/8.0 and it looks like the problem is gone! Encoding should definitely be UTF-8 of course.
I've also seen this problem. After reading bbouwens' comment, I changed, in: ~/.local/share/applications/netbeans-8.0.2.desktop, the line: Exec=/bin/sh "/home/christian/devtools/netbeans-8.0.2/bin/netbeans" to Exec=/home/christian/devtools/netbeans-8.0.2/bin/netbeans and the problem went away.
Although I dit not reported, this bug reappeared some time after my last post. I also use KDE as my desktop environment. I can confirm that surlykke's fix work for me too.
Thanks surlykke@netbeans.org I was also running Netbeans with "/bin/sh". Removing this solved the issue for me too.
Also tried the trick with removing /bin/sh, but for me that doesn't help. Now it could relate to that I use /bin/zsh as default shell (no this isn't the place to start a shell war) so there may be something subtle in the environment, but I don't see yet why.
All of you have KDE and are you using jVi?
At least I do. But I've actually seen the problem also in the office, under GNOME. In the mean time I found out that starting from the desktop doesn't set the LC_ALL; if I explicitly set it in the first lines of /usr/local/netbeans-8.0.2/bin/netbeans, the problem is gone. So why isn't it set then, and why does Netbeans default to something silly instead of UTF-8?
I am sending to launcher for evaluation.
Cursor disappear, sometime stop responding. Ubuntu 14 LTS javac 1.8.0_45-internal netbeans 8.0.2 problem only with java 8. - starting netbeans with /bin/sh, /bin/bash - disabling "use modal frame" - Oracle Java 8 - From scratch with test user without any custom configuration. same problem.
This is jVi issue. No problem if jVi is not installed.
Indeed caused by the [jVi](http://sourceforge.net/p/jvi/discussion/10909/thread/80f191d3/) plugin. The plugin implmented a work-around. Configure `Mac Retina Cursor Xor Bug` like this: `Tools` -> `Options` -> `jVi Config` -> `Platform` -> `Mac Retina Cursor Xor Bug` :: true