Re: Cursor style

[Ricardo Cantu]

Thank you for the info! I'm running gnome-terminal with terminal type of 
xterm, it accepts the three modes without an error, but it seems that it can 
only display a block cursor or no cursor.. I've sent a message to the 
maintainers of gnome-terminal, let's see what they have to say.


On Tuesday 02 January 2007 19:22, you wrote:
> Ricardo Cantu wrote:
> > Is there a way to change the cursor style from a blinking block to a
> > blinking vertical line. I would like to do this to indicate if I'm in
> > insert mode or overstrike..
>
> Incidentally, I use it for the same purpose ...
>
> :        int curs_set(int visibility);
> :
> :        The curs_set routine sets the cursor state is set to invisible,
> : normal, or very visible for visibility equal to 0, 1, or  2 
> : respectively.   If the  terminal  supports  the  visibility requested,
> : the previous cursor state is returned; otherwise, ERR is returned.
>
> The big if is, if the terminal supports it. The respective terminfo
>
> capabilities are:
> :        cursor_invisible              civis      vi        make cursor
> : invisi- ble
> :        cursor_normal                 cnorm      ve        make cursor
> : appear normal (undo civis/cvvis) cursor_visible                cvvis     
> : vs        make cursor very visible
>
> One terminal that does is the Linux console (which I mostly use) --
> hardware text mode since 2.4, frame buffer console since 2.6 --
> where cnorm produces a vertical line and cvvis a block.
>
> However, since the default is usually normal visibility, and your
> default seems to be the block, I guess your terminal doesn't support
> it. (Which means, either it doesn't support it at all, or it needs
> additional terminfo entries. If you know escape sequences to change
> it, it should be possible to add them in terminfo.)
>
> Frank

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