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Date:      Tue, 21 Nov 2000 10:05:33 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        andrew@ugh.net.au
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hiding the cursor on the console
Message-ID:  <20001121100533.B23358@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011212356500.34727-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>; from "andrew@ugh.net.au" on Tue Nov 21 23:58:41 GMT 2000
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011212356500.34727-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>

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In the last episode (Nov 21), andrew@ugh.net.au said:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to hide the (text) cursor when using syscons? There is
> no vi attribute defined for the cons25 termcap record...is this an
> oversite or is it not possible?

You can cheat by setting the cursor shape to an invalid one, which will
turn it off, then setting it back to normal when you want to turn it on
again:

off:   ESC [=16;15C ESC [=3C
on:    ESC [=15;16C ESC [=3C

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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