On 13.10.18,11:35, David Woodfall wrote: > I'm using the 1/3 block cursor in a plain linux console, set by a > control code (\e[?3c). > > I find that a few applications (vim, mutt, moc, finch, calcurse) > reset my cursor back to the thin underline, which is very hard to > see. And the cursor will affect all other screen windows too. > > With vim I can set a custom cursor when I start it and exit, so > that's not so much of a problem. With mutt I can stop it resetting > the cursor by giving it a fake TERM of xterm-color when I start it. > However, I haven't managed to find a similar workaround for calcurse, > moc and finch. > > I've tried different init and reset strings in termcapinfo, but I > can't seem to find the magic setting that stops the cursor resetting. > > A diff between xterm-color and linux.screen terminfos has pointed at > the differences, but using those hasn't helped, unless I'm setting it > wrong. > > Is there a brute-force method of stopping cursor resets like this? > > I realise that applications usually look better when the cursor is > hidden for drawing menus and such. Other applications like less, lynx > and elinks don't seem to have this problem (although elinks uses an > option to put the cursor at bottom right of the screen, out of view.) > > Any ideas about this would be most helpful indeed. >
Can you do something like the answer in this post? https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/7306/vim-normal-and-insert-mode-cursor-not-changing-in-gnu-screen Jostein _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
