Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 3 Jun 96 09:46 MET DST | From | (Olaf Titz) |
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Newsgroups: linux.dev.kernel Path: not-for-mail From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> Subject: Re: noblink (was Re: [POSIX.6] Patches uploaded) Message-ID: <dseyxt.58l@bigred.inka.de> Date: 03 Jun 1996 09:46:37 +0200 References: <4oqud4$be6@server3.mersinet.co.uk> Organization: private Linux site, southern Germany Lines: 19
<athan@mersinet.co.uk> wrote: > >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
All that setterm does is send a few escape sequences. The code to _interpret_ them is in the noblink patch. If you don't have that installed the setterm does nothing.
Btw., I definitely vote for the noblink patch into the mainstream kernel (have an LCD myself :-)
olaf -- ___ Olaf.Titz@inka.de or @{stud,informatik}.uni-karlsruhe.de ____ __ o <URL:http://www.inka.de/~bigred/> <IRC:praetorius> __/<_ >> Just as long as the wheels keep on turning round _)>(_)______________ I will live for the groove 'til the sun goes down << ____
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