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 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
