[issue4630] IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The idea and design look good to me. I will test on Windows when I am able to do so in development builds (unless someone beats me ;-). -- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker

[issue4630] IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime

Jelle Geerts added the comment: I, too, would like to see this as an option in IDLE, as I also find blinking cursors distracting. I can confirm that tkinter.Text's "insertofftime" option works on Windows as well, so the proposed patch should work on Windows. -- nosy: +bughunter2 ___

[issue4630] IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime

Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- stage: -> patch review versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.7, Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-

[issue4630] IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime

Mark Summerfield added the comment: I think a checkbox would be better: [X] Blinking cursor or [X] Cursor blink but if you use radio buttons you could have: Cursor blink (*) On ( ) Off -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue4630] IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime

Guilherme Polo added the comment: Here is a patch. But I'm not feeling comfortable with the option "display": Cursor blink ( ) No blink( ) Blink Those are radiobuttons. If I opted for a checkbutton then it would be different from everything on the "General" config, still.. -

[issue4630] IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime

Mark Summerfield added the comment: I agree that control of the blink _rate_ isn't needed. I would certainly welcome a "[X] blinking cursor" checkbox that defaulted to being checked so that existing behaviour is unchanged, but at the same time offering an easier solution (i.e., no blinking if th

[issue4630] IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime

Guilherme Polo added the comment: Maybe we can agree on the feature being added ? I don't see much use for controlling how much time the insertion cursor is on and how much time it is off, but maybe just choosing between blink and no-blink would be good to have. I would prefer to just get an opt

[issue4630] IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime

Mark Summerfield added the comment: Yes, blinking cursors are torture for me too. Fortunately you can switch them off globally in Windows, and in most cases on Linux (which is what I use). But not on Mac OS X, and not it seems for Java apps. This site has some tips: http://www.jurta.org/en/prog/

[issue4630] IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime

Mehmet Köse added the comment: Thank you very much. It was a kind of chinese torture. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list m

[issue4630] IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime

Mark Summerfield added the comment: Py2.6: idlelib/EditorWindow.py change line 110 from: width=self.width, to: width=self.width, insertofftime=0, Py3.0 apply the same change to line 112 This will switch off cursor blink (and annoy people who want cursor blink). So really instead of setting it

[issue4630] IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime

Mehmet Köse added the comment: Would you please share that code with us. -- nosy: +decaf ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list m

[issue4630] IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime

Mark Summerfield added the comment: Although I stand by my criticism of IDLE not offering the option of switching off cursor blink, I've now discovered that the problem was with Fedora 10 no longer executing xrdb .Xdefaults; once I added that line to my .bash_profile the cursor blinking stopped.

[issue4630] IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime

New submission from Mark Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: IDLE's cursor blinks with Python 3.0 on Linux. But it shouldn't (and doesn't for prior versions) because in my .Xdefaults file I have the line: *insertOffTime: 0 Now I have to manually edit idlelib/EditorWindow.py to stop the cursor from