re blinking cursor in xterm bernward moepi do open de bernward averwald writes yes don t confuse the mouse cursor with the text cursor in the xterms the latter is only controlled by the application back in the days of x i did analyse the xterm code the cursor was implemented by drawing a rectangle around the character i doesn t seem to be changed til now but if you have the sources you could add a blinking cursor via xtappaddtimeout or similar xt app addtimeout doesn t work in xterm because despite appearances to the contrary xterm is not really an xt based application other sources like timeouts and inputs are never checked in xterm s main loop so don t be surprised when you try this and it doesn t work kaleb
