nonblinking VGA block cursor
Quoted 6 lines · Daniel Phillips
Quoted 3 lines · Albert D. Cahalan
Non-blinking cursors are just wrong. You need to patch your brain. You really fucked up, because now apps can't restore your cursor to proper behavior as defined by IBM.
Just one question Albert: why doesn't my mouse cursor blink? ;-)
Because of you can move mouse cursor - moving mouse usually does not have serious side effect. Normal cursor cannot be moved without sideeffects, so you cannot find it so easy.
If you want, just plug matrox into your laptop and use matroxfb. It restarts cursor blinking cycle on each character printed to screen, so while you are typing, you still see cursor, but if you stop typing, cursor starts blinking...
Just my 0.02Kc.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec [email protected]
[matroxfb has also noblink option because HPA wanted it. But it is another story]