Cursor invisible in JTextField

Hi,
I have tried disabling and making JTextField uneditable separately.
Text if navigable but the cursor is invisible. Any solution ?

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Cursor becomes invisible in JTextField after using default button

In my application there is an update screen (JPanel). I am using default button in that panel. The input field is a normal JTextField. When the update is over the cursor goes back to the input JTextField.
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package com.ns;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.WindowConstants;
public class TestFocus extends javax.swing.JFrame {
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    private JTextField field1;
    private JTextField field2;
    private JPanel jPanel1;
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    private JButton update;
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        field2.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(40, 20));
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So, I recently updated my system and after the next reboot, the cursor was gone.
Okay, it was not that gone, it was just invisible, but I can use it right now as it was there.
Unfortunately, it was not the smallest update, so I currently have no clue, which package may have caused this.
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[2013-09-30 17:10] [PACMAN] upgraded glib2 (2.36.4-1 -> 2.38.0-1)
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Last edited by WolleTD (2013-10-02 08:29:03)

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