Package: console-common
Version: 0.7.72
Severity: important
File: console
hi,
after i upgraded from etch to lenny, i discovered that a workaround
that i used to use no longer works.
i used to do
echo -ne "\033[?17;0;64c"
to stop the cursor from blinking. this is hardly a self-evident way to fix it
(just try finding out how using all the docs you can think of!) but it worked.
it created a red nonblinking cursor. unfortunately, it didn't fix
xemacs -nw, and what's worse, the cursor went back to blinking after
xemacs. so i had to run it every time the shell prompt was drawn.
annoying, but it worked.
now, that workaround doesn't work. the linux vt cursor is a blinking
underline and if i run the above, it is a red nonblinking cursor AND a
blinking underline. xemacs -nw is still broken, with a blinking
underline. tried various inside-emacs things to fix it.
to find a solution to the new problem, i checked the docs for
console-common, console-tools, dpkg-reconfigure, google, various man
-k, setterm, and a bunch of other places. nothing yielded a result --
except a suggestion on the web that the kernel code might need
changing. if so, it's problematic. many people have neurological
issues with blinking cursors, many people find them annoying, and many
people like them. so a choice is the right thing to do. a
non-cryptic way to fix it (with a program like setterm) would make it
easier to find the solution.
i don't know all the issues here, such as with xemacs. but, in
summary, i don't know for sure that a non-blinking cursor is not
possible, but i suspect that it is not. therefore, it would be great
if the cursor could be made non-blinking -- or, at worst,
configurable. if the latter, a little note in a few
strategically-placed documents on how to do that, including for
xemacs, would be nice. i apologize in advance if it's already done,
but all of the places i checked had no such documentation.
thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22myver-6-badinstall (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages console-common depends on:
ii console-data 2:1.03-1 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall
ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-65 Linux console and font utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.17 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.28.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
console-common recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
console-data/keymap/template/layout:
* console-data/keymap/family: qwerty
console-data/keymap/powerpcadb:
console-data/keymap/template/variant:
console-data/keymap/ignored:
console-data/keymap/full:
console-data/keymap/template/keymap:
* console-data/keymap/policy: Don't touch keymap
console-data/bootmap-md5sum: none
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