Re: Blinking cursors in gnome-terminal
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.