re blinking cursor in xterm as quoted from may moepi do open de by bernward moepi do open de bernward averwald 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 the server overhead for this is mildly ridiculous though see also desqview x which does this in its dos windows do you really want xterm to wake up every half second and whack the server into doing a bitblt brandon
