Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:17:37 +0200 | From | Brian Schau <> | Subject | Re: noblink support missing |
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Try:
echo -e '\033[?17;0;64c'
... to set a solid (non-blinking) cursor in red ...!
Kr,
Brian
Kaspar Landsberg wrote: > > Hello, > > i am missing noblink in the Linux kernel. Noblink is a routine which > stops the cursor from blinking in the normal console (not under X) by > making it look like the cursor under X-Windows. And it also allows the > user to chose different colors for the cursor. > > This topic has been brought to this list around 1996 (check the > archive for more) but the thread somehow died without any result. > > Noblink is a very nice feature, not only for laptops. > > Currently, there seem to be several different versions of noblink out > there, all of them for different kernel versions and all of them > outdated. > > I have the patches for 2.0.20, pre2.0.31 and 2.0.33. If anyone would > be willing to add noblink support to the current kernel (as > configuration option), i could send those (they are small) to him. > > But this feature should definitely make it into the kernel. > > Bye, Kasi > > PS: One could argue that setterm is supposed to disable the blinking but > at least on my system (2.2.10), "setterm -blink off" has no effect. > > -- > Kaspar Landsberg, <kl@kl.Snafu.DE> > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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