Re: Cursor style

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> Ricardo Cantu wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> "xterm" is probably not the ideal terminal type here (since it's a
> general setting for various kinds of xterms and more or less

not exactly: "xterm" is usually a copy of one of the standard terminal
descriptions for the "xterm" program.

> compatibles). Unfortunately, most X terminals don't seem to set TERM
> to a more specific value by default.

Most terminal developers don't bother to create a correct terminal
description, preferring that someone else do the work for them.

> I see that ncurses' terminfo file has an entry "gnome: GNOME
> Terminal". You might want to try this first. However, I don't use
> this terminal myself, so I have no idea if it helps. (Probably not
> since gnome-rh72, which it uses indirectly, has entries for civis
> and cnorm, but not cvvis AFAICS. However, this would be the place to
> add it if there is such an escape sequence.)

right - cvvis should only be present if it differs from cnorm.
(Though I was reviewing one of the distributor's patches - it
carefully duplicated cvvis from cnorm in dozens of places since
he didn't want to disturb emacs).

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