Re: noblink support missing

Brian Schau (bsc@fleggaard.dk)
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:17:37 +0200


Try:

echo -e '\033[?17;0;64c'

... to set a solid (non-blinking) cursor in red ...!

Kr,

Brian

Kaspar Landsberg wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> i am missing noblink in the Linux kernel. Noblink is a routine which
> stops the cursor from blinking in the normal console (not under X) by
> making it look like the cursor under X-Windows. And it also allows the
> user to chose different colors for the cursor.
>
> This topic has been brought to this list around 1996 (check the
> archive for more) but the thread somehow died without any result.
>
> Noblink is a very nice feature, not only for laptops.
>
> Currently, there seem to be several different versions of noblink out
> there, all of them for different kernel versions and all of them
> outdated.
>
> I have the patches for 2.0.20, pre2.0.31 and 2.0.33. If anyone would
> be willing to add noblink support to the current kernel (as
> configuration option), i could send those (they are small) to him.
>
> But this feature should definitely make it into the kernel.
>
> Bye, Kasi
>
> PS: One could argue that setterm is supposed to disable the blinking but
> at least on my system (2.2.10), "setterm -blink off" has no effect.
>
> --
> Kaspar Landsberg, <kl@kl.Snafu.DE>
>
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