On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 07:00:19PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> Package: console-common
> Version: 0.7.73
> Followup-For: Bug #457885
> 
> 
> On http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CursorOnLinuxConsole it's explained
> why starting (GNU) Emacs re-enables the blinking cursor and they describe how
> to modify the terminfo/termcap resources to disable cursor size changes.

It's been six years, and the Emacs maintainers still haven't fixed their
bug (very-visible means just that - a more visible cursor than the default).
 
> Escape sequences to disable HW cursor are explained in the Linux kernel
> documentation, the file should be called VGA-softcursor.txt
> 
> I'm still looking for a way to disable the blinking cursor at boot or at 
> least during boot... (=

;-)

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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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