Cursor shape and cursor blink configuation

[tom.delusinne]

Hi,

Would it be possible to include both cursor shape and cursor blink configuation options in the preferences screen?

Currently, the only way to configure these, is to edit ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc and change the corresponding MiscCursorBlinks and MiscCursorShape settings.

Including them in the prefences screen would be greatly appreciated.
(I'm not a GTK/Glade developer, else I would definitely have contributed a patch)

Thanks,
Tom Delusinne

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xfce4-terminal 0.6.2
Xubuntu 13.10

[Kreijack-f (kreijack-f)]

Created attachment 3453
Add cursor shape/blink and auto-hide mouse pointer options

The enclosed patch adds the following options in the preferences dialog:
    - auto hide mouse pointer
    - cursor blink on or off
    - set cursor shape (block, ibeam, underline).

This patch should solve the Bug 6263

[Kreijack-f (kreijack-f)]

You can pull these changes from

 http://cassiopea.homelinux.net/git/xfce4/apps/terminal.git

branch

 blinkcursors

Or browser the source at

 http://cassiopea.homelinux.net/git/?p=xfce4/apps/terminal.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/blinkcursors

[Robie Basak (racb)]

19:16 <brainwash> please mark as wishlist bug 1276432

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

I've been using gnome-terminal with I-Beam cursor for about a year now, and I LOVE it!

Advantages:
+ It brings you the concept which you see in every other app, namely that the cursor is _between_ two characters, rather than _over_ one. This gives you a consistent behavior across the terminal and other graphical apps.
+ Behavior of keys, most notably Delete in pretty much any application, but also Ctrl+arrows and similar ones make much more sense this way.
+ Highlighting in text editors becomes a better experience, you'll no longer get the boundary off-by-one. E.g. with the joe text editor, when highlighting with Ctrl+arrows, the highlighted text is inverted just like the character under the cursor (which is hence inverted twice, that is, rendered normally if highlighting backwards), which caused me to end the selection at the wrong place most of the time.
+ Similarly, when walking in dialog boxes of midnight commander, the cursor doesn't interfere with the text's colors, letting you always see the shortcut key by its color, regardless of whether the cursor is over that character or not.

Disadvantages:
- Harder to find the cursor with the eyes (blinking cursor does help a lot though, and you'll get used to it; also I made it wider than the default in gtk.css).
- Vim's command mode seems to think of the cursor being over a character, e.g. that's what pressing End suggests. So it's misleading in this app. I don't know if this behavior can be configured or not, I'm not a vim user.

[Igor Zakharov (f2404)]

Versions 0.8.x have this configuration.

[Unit 193 (unit193)]

According to the upstream bug report, and upstream maintainer (commenter above), this is now fixed. Closing.