It seems the symptom is specific to xfce, where the values in xfconf seem to control the relevant behavior. The cursor blinking timeout for GTK applications can be controlled by adding a new integer key "/Gtk/CursorBlinkTimeout" to the "xsettings" channel.
It seems the symptom is specific to xfce, where the values in xfconf seem to control the relevant behavior. The cursor blinking timeout for GTK applications can be controlled by adding a new integer key "/Gtk/CursorBli nkTimeout" to the "xsettings" channel.