Mac IntelliJ cursor style/type does not change (st

Question

Sometimes (every 10 minutes in average) the cursor style/type does not change from the default to edit or drag/resize when hoovering between various window components in IntelliJ Idea (OSX Yosemite).

It stays stuck in the default style unless I do some weird combo such as right click in the editor window and then again right click anywhere in the drop down menu.

I'm not sure if this is just problem of Java/IntelliJ Idea or a general problem of Yosemite though as far as I remember it happens only in IntelliJ.

Any suggestions on this matter please?

Answer 1

I was having this same issue using JRE 1.8. I was able to fix it by installing Apple's JRE 1.6 and editing the JVM property.

To specify a different JVM version, open up:

/Applications/IntelliJ\ IDEA\ 14.app/Contents/Info.plist

Modify the following property:

<key>JVMVersion</key>
<string>1.6+,1.7+</key>

to

<key>JVMVersion</key>
<string>1.6*</key>

Answer on IntelliJ Support

Answer 2

This is an IntelliJ bug. I created a bugreport for it on Jetbrains' YouTrack. You can monitor its progress there.

The bugreport also contains suggested workarounds such as using IntelliJ 14.1 EAP with custom bundled JDK 1.8, which could possibly fix this issue. I have tried it but reverted back to Apple JRE 1.6 almost immediately because of font rendering issues.

Answer 3

Looks like this is fixed in JBR for mac/JRE 11 build 546, just not in a major IDE release yet.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-1874#focus=streamItem-27-3711024.0-0

You can update the runtime to a fixed version using these steps: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544879-Selecting-the-JDK-version-the-IDE-will-run-under

I can confirm this is fixed by installing the latest build (near the bottom of the list): jbrsdk-11_0_5-osx-x64-b635.1.tar.gz using the steps above.