To answer my own question: Putting the following line into .vimrc does it for me:
:au VimEnter * silent exec "!printf '\033[?12l'" I don't think this is supposed to be this hard. Regards Andre On 17.08.2017 10:43, Andre Naujoks wrote: > Just to add my "me too!" here. Took me a while to pinpoint this to vim > and it's really annoying. > > Is there a workaround to disable the blinking? Setting guicursor/gcr > does nothing in a terminal. > > Regards > Andre >