Re: Cursor style

[Frank Heckenbach]

Ricardo Cantu wrote:

> Thank you for the info! I'm running gnome-terminal with terminal type of 
> xterm, it accepts the three modes without an error, but it seems that it can 
> only display a block cursor or no cursor.. I've sent a message to the 
> maintainers of gnome-terminal, let's see what they have to say.

"xterm" is probably not the ideal terminal type here (since it's a
general setting for various kinds of xterms and more or less
compatibles). Unfortunately, most X terminals don't seem to set TERM
to a more specific value by default.

I see that ncurses' terminfo file has an entry "gnome: GNOME
Terminal". You might want to try this first. However, I don't use
this terminal myself, so I have no idea if it helps. (Probably not
since gnome-rh72, which it uses indirectly, has entries for civis
and cnorm, but not cvvis AFAICS. However, this would be the place to
add it if there is such an escape sequence.)

Frank

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