I have been able to execute this command `echo "0" > /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/cursor_blink` with a system that was using `runit` as it's initialization system. The command was executed during stage 1 of runit's system initialization. http://smarden.org/runit/runit.8.html
Is there an equivalent to runit's stage 1 for Shepherd? Julien Lepiller writes: > I think this is because you cannot replace a file a /sys like guix tries to. > Instead, it seems you can set a linux kernel argument on the command line run > by grub at startup. According to the internet, that would be > "vt.global_cursor_default=0" > > You can set it up in your config by adding a kernel-arguments field to you > operating-system declaration, like this: > > (operating-system > (kernel-arguments (cons "vt.global_cursor_default=0" > %default-kernel-argumentt))) Thank you for bringing this kernel argument to my attention. It looks like there are three settings to choose from: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.15/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html `-1` and `1` both are blinking cursors. `0` is no cursor at all. The challenge with no cursor at all is that it lacks the visual feedback of where the cursor is located.
