In Netbeans the default shortcut key to run tests for the current file is CTRL+F6. For some odd reason this wasn’t working on my recently installed Linux Mint Xfce operating system…?!?

At first i thought maybe its just broken in Netbeans. But now it seems that the window manager (xfwm4) of Xfce uses CTRL+F# to switch workspaces. After some searching I figured out howto disable this feature. Look for it under the shortcut settings of the window manager and not at the keyboard or workspaces settings. Doh!

Back to my Test-Driven Development training examples…