Nonblinking cursor in xmonad

Question

I'm trying to get a nonblinking cursor in gnome-terminal.

In gnome I used gconftool-2 -s /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/cursor_blink_mode -t string off do accomplish this. How can i stop the cursor from blinking in xmonad?

Answer 1

Installing the gconf2 package and using the same command you suggested worked for me. I'm running XMonad on Ubuntu 11.10.

Answer 2

Try this:

echo 0 > /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/cursor_blink

Set it to default by invoking it in a script that is run with superuser privileges every time you boot your computer (that is, if you'd like to try it in a VT first, use su -c and then quote the command).

I have mine in /etc/rc.local - it works, although I suspect that file had another purpose originally.

If you use bash, you could do something like this (in .bashrc):

BLUEBOXNOBLINK="\033[?17;0;60c"
PS1="\[$BLUEBOXNOBLINK\] ...    # set it as a prefix