Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Erik Christiansen wrote: > >> On 30.09.12 11:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> > Where in the fine manual is it mentioned how to change the colour of >> > the cursor and the colour of the matching parenthesis / bracket for >> > all file types? I have tried ":h cursor color" and several other >> > phrases, the only relevant one that I found it "h color" which did not >> > lead me to the answer. I have tried "highlight MatchParen cterm=bold >> > ctermfg=red ctermbg=blue" but this did not change the colour of the >> > matching parenthesis or bracket. >> >> For the cursor, I just set the initial colour in the xterm: >> >> col='-fg yellow -bg darkslategrey -cr red' # Colours >> /usr/bin/xterm $col # and lots more options. >> >> In Vim, I then only change the cursor colour to indicate whether we're >> in insert mode or not, without having to look down at the status bar: >> >> " Cursor Appearance: (Insert_Mode == Green, Normal_Mode == Red) >> if &term =~ "xterm" >> let &t_SI = "\<Esc>]12;green\x7" >> let &t_EI = "\<Esc>]12;red\x7" >> endif >> >> But the method could be used in other contexts, I guess. >> >> As regards MatchParen colouring, I've only made sure that is turned >> off, since it drove me nuts when I tried it. The bouncing cursor is more >> than enough. > > I also use a different cursor color for Insert mode. It's nice, but > recently it has started to cause terminal window flicker. I asked > Thomas Dickey and he blames Ubuntu Compiz. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and > an automatic update about a month ago started the problem. It first > happened after a reboot, one of the updates before that must have caused > it. > > Still don't know how to fix it. It gets a bit annoying. Searching for > Ubuntu screen flicker has many hits, but I haven't spotted the right one > yet.
I also use different colors for the cursor in insert mode vs normal mode with xubuntu-12.04 (with all updates) and I have not noticed any flicker. Perhaps you can try whether installing xfce solves your flicker issue: 1/ sudo apt-get update 2/ sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop 3/ Log out. 4/ Select xfce to login I remember having very slow refresh and flicker in vim a long time ago, and solved it at the time by installing the latest Nvidia driver. -- Dominique -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
