I am running Xubuntu 14.04 and the default Terminal Emulator (xfterm I think). The terminal itself is fine but I want to change the cursor to a blinking underline rather than a solid block. How do I do this? Can't see anything in the settings.
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You can change the cursor shape in XFCE terminal by editing ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc
(expressed partly as shell parameter expansion), just find the MiscCursorShape
variable and change it from TERMINAL_CURSOR_SHAPE_BLOCK
to TERMINAL_CURSOR_SHAPE_UNDERLINE
. In order to have a blinking cursor (any shape you defined) you must have MiscCursorBlinks=TRUE
too.
System-wide defaults can be found under some of the colon separated directories ${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS:-/etc/xgd}
, respectively.
See XDG Base Directory Specification for more information about which directories are used and in which order.
For details and additional options on available in the graphical configuration tool, see http://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/advanced
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This did not work for me, I have already tried it. In my case I didn't even have a ~/.config/Terminal folder, never mind any file called terminalrc. I tried creating it but it did not work.– SamuelHJul 8, 2014 at 17:35
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overwrite-mode
of Bash shell.overwrite-mode
is shell specific, but the cursor setting is application specific, so it seems to be impossible to have this, if you use several windows/tabs.