Bug#725017: freemnd: ignores keyboard input

[Edward Welbourne]

Package: freemind
Version: 0.9.0+dfsg-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I opened freemind.  It helpfully opened the last .mm I'd been working on (which
is about 2.4 MB in size).  It was, however, partly off-screen (as it always is;
it opens with the top of the window somewhere off the top of the screen).  I
moved it down to where I could see it all.

I clicked in the work area to put focus in the right place and started
navigating with the keyboard, as is my wont.  Nothing happened; the central node
remained selected.  I opened other nodes by clicking on them (randomly opening
web pages to which some are linked in the process) with the mouse to get to
where I wanted to edit the mind-map.  I tried keyboard actions at various
points, to no avail.  I checked the menus to be sure I was typing the right
short-cuts.  I told it to add a node: but when I typed content for the node,
nothing happened.  I was, however, able to paste content in from another
application. Previously the keyboard worked fine ...

I don't know what's changed: the installed version of freemind is the same as in
stable, so it's not what changed.  Perhaps java ?  Hard to tell.  I'm using fvwm
as my window-manager; other applications get keyboard input just fine.  I'm
using Debian/testing and typically update each week.  It's been several weeks
since I last used freemind.

Exiting and restarting made no difference.
Uninstalling and reinstalling afresh was also no help :-(

-- Package-specific info:
[debug] /usr/bin/freemind: Found JAVA_HOME = '/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64'
[debug] /usr/bin/freemind: Found JAVA_CMD = '/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin/java'
DEBUG:   Freemind parameters are ''.
DEBUG:   Linux vortex 3.10-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.10.7-1 (2013-08-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
DEBUG:   Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux testing (jessie)
Release:	testing
Codename:	jessie
DEBUG:   The following DEB packages are installed:
ii  freemind                    0.9.0+dfsg-2       all                Java Program for creating and viewing Mindmaps
ii  freemind-doc                0.9.0+dfsg-2       all                Documentation for FreeMind
ii  freemind-plugins-svg        0.9.0+dfsg-2       all                Java Plugin for FreeMind to export Mindmaps to SVG and PDF
DEBUG:   Link '/usr/bin/freemind' resolved to '/usr/share/freemind/freemind.sh'.
DEBUG:   Freemind Directory is '/usr/share/freemind'.
DEBUG:   Calling: '/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin/java -Dgnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.Graphics=Graphics2D -Dfreemind.base.dir=/usr/share/freemind -cp ::/usr/share/freemind/lib/freemind.jar:/usr/share/java/SimplyHTML.jar:/usr/share/java/gnu-regexp.jar:/usr/share/java/jibx-run-1.1.6a.jar:/usr/share/java/xpp3.jar:/usr/share/freemind/lib/bindings.jar:/usr/share/java/forms.jar:/usr/share/freemind freemind.main.FreeMindStarter  '.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages freemind depends on:
ii  default-jre             1:1.7-49
ii  libjgoodies-forms-java  1.6.0-4
ii  libjibx1.1-java         1.1.6a-3
ii  simplyhtml              0.16.07-1

Versions of packages freemind recommends:
ii  freemind-doc   0.9.0+dfsg-2
ii  java-wrappers  0.1.27
ii  xdg-utils      1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7

Versions of packages freemind suggests:
pn  freemind-browser         <none>
pn  freemind-plugins-help    <none>
pn  freemind-plugins-script  <none>
ii  freemind-plugins-svg     0.9.0+dfsg-2

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