Christian Kelly wrote: >> * I can no longer seem to disable the blinking cursor >> in gnome-terminal. It was bad enough I couldnt change >> the cursor color, but now I have to enjoy the >> distraction of a blinking block all day long. I am >> all for trimming useless features, but this *really* >> should have remained. > > This is now in System > Preferences > Keyboard > "Cursor Blinking" > > Bear in mind this is a change in the Gnome community - you'll see the same > thing in Ubuntu, and there seems to be plenty of other people annoyed by the > change and the fact that there is now one global setting for all blinking > cursors.
It's fixed in GNOME 2.24[1] which will land in snv_99 [2]. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533522 [2] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2008-September/015521.html -- James Andrewartha
