netbeans 6.1: UI is unusable

[Peter A. Felvegi]

Hello,

today I downloaded 6.1 to give it a try. The UI just doesn't working:
the main menu pulls down only if I keep the mouse button pressed, and if
I move downwards to select an item, the pulldown dissapears, and a
pulldown of another menu item shows. Clicking is not possible.

my config:
debian etch amd64
netbeans 6.1
jdk1.6.0_06-amd64

I wasn't able to find anything similar among the known issues.
Any ideas?

Regards, Peter

[Wade Chandler]

--- "Peter A. Felvegi" <petschy@...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> today I downloaded 6.1 to give it a try. The UI just doesn't working:
> the main menu pulls down only if I keep the mouse button pressed, and if
> I move downwards to select an item, the pulldown dissapears, and a
> pulldown of another menu item shows. Clicking is not possible.
>
> my config:
> debian etch amd64
> netbeans 6.1
> jdk1.6.0_06-amd64
>
> I wasn't able to find anything similar among the known issues.
> Any ideas?
>

nbusers is the list for these type questions. It is probably related to the graphics environment
or something. It may be the 64-bit JVM, but hopefully not. I'm using it on openSuSE 10.3 (32-bit
OS, VM, hardware) with xrandr dual monitors and it is working awesome. I have run it with the 1.5
and 1.6 JVMs I can get from SuSE (still Sun JVMs) and the 1.6u10 (consumer developer kit/runtime)
from Sun which is supposed to have better startup etc. Are you running any enhanced 3D Linux
desktops such as Compiz or any others? These have had different issues.

Wade


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