Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:21:40 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Darren Henderson <darren@nighttide.net>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syscon cursor change in 4.9-STABLE? Message-ID: <200311021521.40284.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0311012105570.1036@olmec> References: <5.0.2.1.1.20031101221925.0326b1f0@popserver.sfu.ca> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0311012105570.1036@olmec>
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On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:58, Darren Henderson wrote: > Ok, potentially silly observation time - may just be a sign of my brain > ossifying ... have upgraded three systems to 4.9-STABLE with a cvsup fr= om > 10/31. Two from 4.9 pre-releases and one from 4.8-STABLE. > > The cursor behavior in the console (and rxvt and xterm) seems to have > changed. I seem to recall it having always been a slow blinking block. = Now > its a non-blinking block. Can't seem to get it to go back to what I > remember. vidcontrol -c blink causes to the cursor to blink in syscons = but > at a very rapid rate. Not sure I see how the behavior of syscons and th= e X > terminals could be related. > > Only things in rc.conf are 'saver=3D"warp"', 'blanktime=3D"300"' and > 'keyrate=3D"fast"'. > > So, on the basis of this, am I imagining things? > I'm running 4.7-STABLE and I have steady block cursors both in console an= d xterm -- I haven't taken any specific action to set them this way. Nor do= I=20 recall having blinking cursors on earlier versions. It could be you found= =20 some way of setting this up earlier that has now got lost. May be I am missing something -- I would hate to suggest your brain really is ossifyi= ng;-) More likely you are just mis-remembering which happens to most of us some= of=20 the time (even me). Malcolm Kay
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