Blinking cursors in gnome-terminal

[Andrew Farris]

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.

Related to this is there a common location/key to change the cursor style?  I no 
longer find how to change cursor style in the terminal from the block to |.

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