Thanks a bunch Josh - will definitely give it a try next time it happens. tom
> On Aug 22, 2018, at 10:28 PM, Josh Juneau <juneau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > I have also had the disappearing cursor issue in NetBeans 8.2 and 9.0 while > on a Mac with two monitors. If you simply minimize the window (down into the > dock) and bring it back up, then the cursor re-appears and you are able to > edit once again. > > Hope this helps. Yes, if there is not an issue in the tracker yet for this > problem in 9.0, then we should enter one. > > Thanks > > Josh Juneau > juneau...@gmail.com > http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com > https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866 > >> On Aug 22, 2018, at 2:01 PM, Thomas Wolf <tjw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I've seen this once or twice even in NB 8.2. Didn't know what the cause was >> and AFAIK the bug reporting from within NB 8.2 no longer has a point, so I >> didn't bother. I've also noticed two other bugs in multi-monitor setups on >> a Mac: I often lose the ability to resize the split panes - to "fix" it, I >> have to click somewhere on the other monitor, then come back to the monitor >> that has NB, and click there - then I can resize again. Finally, and this >> seems a recent phenomenon: the input cursor disappears from the editor. I >> have no idea how to get it back either - I end up exiting Netbeans and come >> back in. I think it also has to do with a multi-monitor environment on Mac, >> but am not sure. This is all on 8.2. >> >> Just bringing these things up so people don't think they're new 9.0 issues. >> tom >> >> >>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 1:24 PM Paul Szudzik <pszud...@throwarock.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Line numbers disappear... It seems to be a timed thing. I have had >>> Netbeans up for quite a few days. The problem also kills the Find, Replace >>> aspects, can’t place a debug stop on a line. If I close that module down, >>> and re-open it, it comes back ok. I have submitted this as a bug way back >>> in Netbeans 5 or so... It’s annoying not Programmer Sanity Threatening. I >>> have had the video card changed to a totally OpenGL card, that had no >>> effect. You can see the memory heap usage quite high, but that goes up and >>> down, and can’t correlate the issue with that. >>> >>> >>> <image[3].png> >> >> >> -- >> tjw...@gmail.com >> http://landofwolf.blogspot.com/