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.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vte2.91 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798481 Title: org.gnome.desktop.interface.cursor-blink-timeout not honored Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu: New Status in xfconf package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Xubuntu desktop 18.04.1 $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 gnome-terminal: 3.28.2-1ubuntu1~18.04.1 libgtk-3-0: 3.22.30-1ubuntu1 dconf-editor: 3.28.0-1 Per workaround instructions in comment #8 on bug 838381 (of which this is not a duplicate), I set /org/gnome/desktop/interface/cursor-blink-timeout to a large value, less than the stated maximum of 2^31 - 1. I saved the change, exited dconf-editor and restarted the computer. What I expected to happen: Cursor in GTK-based terminal emulators will no longer stop blinking after 10 seconds. What happens instead: Cursor in GTK-based terminal emulators continues to stop blinking after 10 seconds. Of note, the cursor-blink-time *is* honored. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte2.91/+bug/1798481/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
