Bug#725017: closed by Markus Koschany <apo at gambaru.de> (Bug#713144: fixed in freemind 0.9.0+dfsg-3)

[Edward Welbourne]

> we often used jedit in the past as a guinea pig that shows if a 
> problem is due to Java and its environment, or to FreeMind/Freeplane.

Installed jedit, ran it; it's ignoring keyboard input, too.
So sounds like Java's the actual problem.
The alternatives system is using java-7-openjdk-amd64.
What other does it make sense to try in its place ?

	Eddy.