Re: RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

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On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 13:37 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > We might as well change the slogan to:
> >
> >    Fedora: stupid and proud of it!
> 
> I would appreciate it if you tried to keep this discussion civil.
> 
> 
> right now on my F10 system
> 
> xterm defaults to no blink
> konsole defaults to no blink
> aterm defaults to no blink
> Eterm defaults to no blink
> rxvt defaults to no blink
> 
> gnome-terminal defaults to blink
> 
> I do not think traditional terminal operation makes a strong argument
> in the scope of this discussion in the light of the fact that other
> terminal emulators with codebase lifetimes as long or longer than
> gnome-terminal/libvte already default to no blink in F10.
> 
> If anything.. gnome-terminal is the odd man out and there is an
> argument to be made to bring it into line with the common default
> behaviour of other virtual terminals.
> 
> -jef"unless my defaults are screwed up of course"spaleta
> 

Not really on topic, but food for thought...

I powered up my DEC VT420 and the cursor doesn't blink on it.  I don't
know if that was the default setting, but I've not changed it...but
there is a setting for it.  I can't say I ever noticed it not blinking.


Brian



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