Blinking X cursor (in xterm) - please make it stop!

Thomas Dickey dickey at his.com
Fri Feb 8 12:16:54 PST 2008


On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Bill Crawford wrote:

> I'm being driven nuts by the X cursor blinking on and off when I

that sounds like xterm patch #230, which is fixed in #232.

> scroll back and forth along a line in my terminal. It's noticeable on
> both screens, but especially so on the (built in) SIS one; no idea
> why. Basically, I want to know if there's any way to stop it? I've
> looked all through the xterm man page without seeing anything
> relevant. It's only started being really annoying recently, although I
> noticed the flickering a few times before now. Is there *any* option
> to stop it? Please? The fluorescent lights in my new office are bad
> enough :o)
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