Am 03.01.2026 um 18:32 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]>:
>
> On 1/3/26 12:23 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 1/2/26 21:19, Tom Goldring wrote:
>>> Is there any way to turn it off in MacOS 15.7.3 or any other version? I
>>> find it intolerable. I tried the "Prefer non-blinking cursor" in my System
>>> Settings, but it doesn't work in LyX.
>>>
>> This is a Qt setting. The following works on Linux Mint and may be doable on
>> MacOS.
>> Install the Qt 5 configuration tool (qt5ct on Linux).
>> Run the tool. If you get a warning about QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME not being set,
>> you have to add the line QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct to an appropriate
>> configuration file and reboot. In my case, I was able to add it to
>> ~/.config/qt5ct/qt5ct.conf. Other Linux users report putting it in
>> /etc/environment or other places. You'll have to do a little research to
>> find the appropriate file on a Mac.
>> Once the configuration tool is running without warnings, go to the Interface
>> tab and change "Cursor flash time" to 0ms. Click Apply and then start LyX
>> and confirm that the cursor is rock solid.
>> Note that this will affect all apps on your system using Qt5, not just LyX.
>>
> I am not sure if we use Qt5 or Qt6 with the OSX packages, but qt6ct also
> exists.
>
> Looking at the source code, we do seem to get the cursor flash time from Qt,
> so I'd expect us to respect this setting wherever it comes from. If it's <=0,
> we do not start the blinking.
>
We had a ticket long time ago for this:
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9287
Actually I don’t know what system property to read to respect the "Prefer
non-blinking cursor“ setting in system settings. Unfortunately I couldn’t find
any information regarding this.
Stephan
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