Blinking cursors are in my opinion one of the most annoying “features” of graphical user interfaces. Luckily it is possible to disable them in many applications.
GNU Emacs
To turn off the blinking cursor permanently in GNU Emacs, just put
(if (fboundp 'blink-cursor-mode) (blink-cursor-mode 0)) |
in your .emacs.
GNOME and the GNOME Terminal
Execute the following two commands in a terminal window to get rid of the blinking cursor:
1 2 |
gconftool-2 --set "/desktop/gnome/interface/cursor_blink" --type boolean "False" gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/cursor_blink" --type boolean "False" |
Mozilla Firefox and Epiphany
Open about:config and insert or edit the Integer entry for ui.caretBlinkTime with the value 0.
More information about disabling blinking cursors can be found at JURTA.
