I'm using pgAdmin 4 on Linux (X11, Plasma, desktop mode, Debian, obtained from 
pgAdmin's custom APT repository). Naturally, because I value my eyesight and 
sanity, I use the dark mode. Recently, it has started doing something horrible:

1. Every time you open any new "view" inside the application, it flashes the 
screen bright white before rendering the new page. For example if you click the 
"Query Tool" button. It happens every single time, and was sadly not fixed in 
9.3 which was just released and which I was hopeful for. This drives me insane 
and it didn't use to happen.

2. The program doesn't respect my system settings to not blink the caret in 
text inputs. It keeps blinking even though I've set it to not blink (be fixed 
as visible) in the KDE settings. This "animation" makes it impossible for me to 
use the program; I'm forced to write any query etc. in a separate Kate text 
document (where the caret doesn't blink) and then paste it into pgAdmin 4, 
because having the pgAdmin 4 window up and working in it becomes impossible due 
to this "Caret from Hell".

I've looked all over the GUI settings and searched online for some hidden 
config option to turn this infernal blinking off, but there is just nothing 
(that I can find after spending countless hours). Please enable this somehow so 
that people whose brains will never be compatible with stuff moving around or 
animating on the screen can also use this crucial software. It has overall 
massively improved in recent years, but these two things sadly really drag it 
down again.

PS: I'm aware that pgAdmin 4 uses Chromium which uses some custom rendering 
engine from Google, which would maybe explain why it doesn't care about any of 
my system settings, but nevertheless they cannot have been sadistic enough to 
*hardcode* the cursor to blink? Words cannot describe how distracting and 
stressful that is.

PS 2: I'm sending this to this e-mail list because you use Github for filing 
"Issues", and Github doesn't allow account registration ever since they sold 
out to Microsoft. (No, I'm not making that up. It's been the same every single 
time I've tried over the years. It consistently refuses, like all major 
websites today.)

I'm not even sure I'll be able to respond to anything here. I might have to 
passively read any responses through the web archive depending on how many 
further hurdles there will be to actually posting/sending this...

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