I'm not sure how to disable cursor blink in DrRacket, but your installation comes with a few other executables that are text only - such as "gracket-text" the cursor does not blink on my installation (MacOS, Racket 7.9 (bc))
On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 4:54 AM 'Mark' via Racket Users < [email protected]> wrote: > I've just downloaded and installed Racket to try it out. > > But on both Linux and Windows the caret blinks inside DrRacket which makes > it unusable for me. > > Is it possible to stop the blinking? > > On Windows I've set the system-wide caret not to blink and every other > Windows program I've used respects this (except for Tcl/Tk's ttk widgets). > On Linux it is trickier since I have to switch it off separately for Gtk, > Qt, .Xdefaults, and .gvimrc, but apart from login (lightdm to Xfce) I > never see any blinking. > > I realise that most people _like_ caret blink and find it useful: but I'm > not alone in not being able to work with it. See, e.g., > https://jurta.org/en/prog/noblink > > I guess in the meantime I'll keep reading the racket docs and try it using > vim. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/d72b60c5-c9c7-44e4-8e56-f2df4a5e1b46n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/d72b60c5-c9c7-44e4-8e56-f2df4a5e1b46n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CACgrOxK6-OuSWnZhe-ntiqtZhAcXOCadepsxBT%3DgBwBH7H8Sxg%40mail.gmail.com.
