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Bug 213048

Summary:	context menu and or any right click not working if IDE is on the second monitor.
Product:	platform	Reporter:	thenubus
Component:	JDK Problems	Assignee:	Antonin Nebuzelsky <anebuzelsky>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	dstrupl, mmirilovic, musilt2, ridvan, sakuvee, shousper, tjquinn
Priority:	P1	Keywords:	DUAL_MONITOR, JDK_SPECIFIC
Version:	7.1.2
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description thenubus 2012-05-26 16:47:37 UTC

Product Version = NetBeans IDE 7.1.2 (Build 201204101705)
Operating System = Mac OS X version 10.7.4 running on x86_64
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.7.0_04
Runtime = Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 23.0-b21

I use a dual monitor setup. As soon as i move the IDE to the second monitor context menu's and pull down menu's are no longer working. They simply won't pop up. If i move the IDE window back to the first monitor everything is back to normal.

I found this: http://www.java.net/external?url=http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7131912
but nobody seems to care.

Comment 1 Stanislav Aubrecht 2012-05-31 13:56:20 UTC

This is a JDK bug reproducible with SwingSet demo app. When the SwingSet demo app is started with JDK 1.7 update 4 it shows on the secondary screen by default. When dragged back to primary screen, all dialog still open at the secondary. Also no tooltips are showing then.
It works fine with JDK 1.6

Comment 2 Stanislav Aubrecht 2012-05-31 13:59:58 UTC

*** Bug 212794 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Marian Mirilovic 2012-05-31 15:43:44 UTC

so it's regression ... Tonda, could we escalate that ? ... very good candidate for 7u6 I would say

Comment 4 Antonin Nebuzelsky 2012-06-01 12:01:30 UTC

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7173487

Comment 5 Stanislav Aubrecht 2012-06-04 10:21:14 UTC

*** Bug 213511 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Antonin Nebuzelsky 2012-06-04 11:50:51 UTC

*** Bug 213512 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Stanislav Aubrecht 2012-06-05 08:38:24 UTC

*** Bug 213550 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Stanislav Aubrecht 2012-06-05 10:32:32 UTC

still reproducible in 1.7.0_06-ea-b12

Comment 9 Antonin Nebuzelsky 2012-06-14 21:59:12 UTC

How about with b13?

Comment 10 Antonin Nebuzelsky 2012-06-14 22:01:58 UTC

*** Bug 214037 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Antonin Nebuzelsky 2012-07-09 13:09:35 UTC

JDK#7173487 marked as fixed in 7u6/b17.

Tomasi, can you verify all symptoms (duplicates) here?

Comment 12 Marian Mirilovic 2012-10-31 09:01:39 UTC

*** Bug 221142 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 shousper 2012-11-01 23:59:40 UTC

So, I've tried installing an updated version of Java, no love. Didn't work anyway >_>, Netbeans just kept using 1.7u4.

Seeing as nobody else has posted a workaround here, I thought I'd share to save someone possibly having to figure it out for themselves..

If you look in /Library/Java or /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions you should have the old version of 1.6 installed. You can tell Netbeans to use 1.6 instead of the system default by modifying this file:

/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 7.2.1.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/etc/netbeans.conf

Obviously your version could be different. Add a value for `netbeans_jdkhome` to point to the 1.6 location. On my Mac OS 10.8 system (with XCode installed, if that makes a difference), I could simply use this:

netbeans_jdkhome="/Library/Java/Home"

Save, and restart netbeans.

This question on SO helped me, so credit where it's due: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2809366/changing-the-version-on-which-netbeans-runs/13187257

Comment 14 Svata Dedic 2013-07-16 11:53:52 UTC

*** Bug 212522 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***