Using gnome-shell, I want to disable the blinking cursor in the default Terminal. Yet cannot find anything in its profile setting to toggle the behavior.
How can I achieve that? I prefer a one-liner.
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Sign up to join this communityUsing gnome-shell, I want to disable the blinking cursor in the default Terminal. Yet cannot find anything in its profile setting to toggle the behavior.
How can I achieve that? I prefer a one-liner.
As pointed out by this blog post, you can disable the blinking cursor through a subshell:
gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:$(gsettings get org.gnome.Terminal.ProfilesList default | tr -d \')/ cursor-blink-mode off