Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 2 Jun 1996 02:31:00 GMT | From | athan@mersinet ... | Subject | Re: noblink (was Re: [POSIX.6] Patches uploaded) |
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.93.960601174350.18463A-100000@eskimo.com>, Mark Devlin <markd@eskimo.COM> wrote: >On 1 Jun 1996 athan@mersinet.co.uk wrote: > >> In article <9606011615.AA42825@typhoon.seas.ucla.edu>, >> <jerijian@seas.ucla.EDU> wrote: >> > There's at least one interesting patch which I use every day. >> >The noblink package turns the Linux console cursor from a >> >hardware-generated blinking one to a software-generated block cursor. >> >> Yup, noblink is very nice, especially on portables, those darned LCD >> screens. > >I may be out of it, and this may be off-topic, but doesn't setterm do this? >setterm -blink on|off
How about colour cursors? Does setterm do BLOCK cursor rather than underline too? the noblink package does... give it a go... It was really written for LCD displays (it is VERY hard spotting an underline cursor on an LCD display after scrolling a bit), but I'd use it on a 'normal' screen too, I like having a blue cursor *8-)
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