Comments on: gnome-terminal cursor

By: spiffed

spiffed — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:35:03 +0000

Petr’s tip works on Ubuntu 9.10

By: Naji

Naji — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:11:26 +0000

I confirm that Petr’s tip works fine on Ubuntu 9.04 thanks

By: rakko-style

rakko-style — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:03:55 +0000

[...] browserからterminalへのコピペがうまく行かないので(方法はきっとあると思うのですが)gnome-terminalを再び導入。でもあれっ?カーソルの点滅を無くす設定が無くなっています。。。どうも新しいバージョンでは無くなってしまったようでpatchを当てている方がいました。 gnome-terminalの改良版であるTerminalというものあるようですが、apt-get出来ませんでした。multi gnome-terminalというのもあるようですが、残念ながらdebianのpackageのリンクが切れていました。 [...]

By: arcadefx

arcadefx — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:42:25 +0000

Petr — thank you!!! that worked! No more blinky winky cursor!

By: Petr

Petr — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:44:44 +0000

Hi,
have you tried gconf-editor? Set the value of /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/cursor_blink_mode to “off”. The default is system.
Hope this helps.
Petr

By: anatoly pugachev

anatoly pugachev — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:03:21 +0000

is there a bugzilla entry for this feature? i want to put my voice to get ability to disable cursor blinking in gnome-terminal

By: chrishowie.com » Blog Archive » Website statistics

chrishowie.com » Blog Archive » Website statistics — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:03:18 +0000

[...] the most popular blog posts are not about my own projects. The most viewed one by far was a gripe about gnome-terminal. Seems many people have the same irritation that I [...]

By: hictio

hictio — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:58:50 +0000

A bit off topic maybe, but, personally, I do like it to blink, and I was looking for a way to convert the cursor on the console from the palsy ‘dash’ to a full block.
Do you happen to know a way to do that?

I love the way you can control that little, totally irrelevant things on FreeBSD

Thanks.

(Yes, I use the console a lot, since the Presario 1200 I’m using with Ununtu can only do 800×600, it is nearly as practical as the console -with a custom vga setting-

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:32:41 +0000

@FredW: Thanks for the directions. Note that doing this as root is a Bad Idea. Instead install the fakeroot package and add -rfakeroot to your build line.

@cpitch: Yeah, it sucks. Don’t bother with gconf. You won’t find anything useful.

By: cpitch

cpitch — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:14:05 +0000

Just reinstalled ubuntu8.04.. First thing I did was install all the patches.. rebooted.. now I noticed that the cursor blinks.. how annoying..

Didn’t do that before I rebooted and I could’ve swarn I could turn it off previously.

I know I’ll just check the help search blink.. click click click ah yes: (from the help page on this freshly patched system)

Allow bold text
Select this option to enable the terminal to display bold text.

Cursor blinks
Select this option to display a cursor that blinks.

Show menubar by default in new terminals
Select this option to show the menubar on new terminal windows.

So someone arbitrarily decided to remove this feature but it was left in the online help.. now.. what’s better, having a consolidated cursor blinking feature that irritates SOME users.. or having inconsistent help documentation..

Brilliant.. sigh, time to look at the gconf awfulness or perhaps the source code