Blinking cursors in gnome-terminal

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 09:05 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> I updated and restarted the Rawhide box last night.  All seems well,
> except: I now have a blinking cursor in gnome-terminal windows.  Even
> worse, the configuration option to turn that behavior off would appear
> to have disappeared.
> 
> I'm one of those crochety old folks who just cannot work in a window
> that is forever blinking at me.  It's a source of visual noise that I
> really do not need.
> 
> Was this a deliberate change, or did something simply break?  It's not
> that long ago that I weaned myself off of xterm; it would be a shame to
> have to go back...

gnome-terminal now uses the same setting that is used to control
blinking cursors elsewhere in GTK+ applications. Use

gconftool-2 --type bool --set /desktop/gnome/interface/cursor_blink
false

to kiss blinking cursors good-bye.