Blinking cursors in gnome-terminal
Adam Jackson
ajackson at redhat.com
Mon Feb 11 16:22:14 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 11:37 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 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.
I filed a bug about this waaaaaay back in the day:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=213042
And I still say that blinking at all is wrong, but I'd even accept the
timeout, if only g-t would honor it.
- ajax
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