Blinking cursors in gnome-terminal

[Adam Jackson]

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 11:37 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 09:05 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > I updated and restarted the Rawhide box last night.  All seems well,
> > except: I now have a blinking cursor in gnome-terminal windows.  Even
> > worse, the configuration option to turn that behavior off would appear
> > to have disappeared.
> > 
> > I'm one of those crochety old folks who just cannot work in a window
> > that is forever blinking at me.  It's a source of visual noise that I
> > really do not need.
> > 
> > Was this a deliberate change, or did something simply break?  It's not
> > that long ago that I weaned myself off of xterm; it would be a shame to
> > have to go back...
> 
> gnome-terminal now uses the same setting that is used to control
> blinking cursors elsewhere in GTK+ applications. Use
> 
> gconftool-2 --type bool --set /desktop/gnome/interface/cursor_blink
> false
> 
> to kiss blinking cursors good-bye.

I filed a bug about this waaaaaay back in the day:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=213042

And I still say that blinking at all is wrong, but I'd even accept the
timeout, if only g-t would honor it.

- ajax