Bug#864320: [RFC] Changing the default cursor on the Linux console?
In Bash it is possible to set a feature that runs when a command runs called precmd to an ANSI sequence that sets a non-blinking block cursor. This make Bash usable. However, that fails if there is no Bash or you not have your .bashrc. There are shell-like entitities that are needed to fix booting. Also, Emacs still blinks! It seems to be either the Linux console or the Emacs C code. Elisp lets you control blinking if you are running Emacs in an terminal under X or as GUI uner X, but not if you are running Emacs in the Linux console. So if you need Emacs to fix a booting problem, you can't use it if you have problems with blinking. Finally, an off-topic comment that white and blue are too bright at night for me, and that the debconf blue and grey have the same problem (the red is OK). Not all can physically adjust their monitors. What would be good is the ability to adjust the console text color to amber, and debconf to a contrasty amber theme, and brightness.
Bug#864320: [RFC] Changing the default cursor on the Linux console?
Hello, I've got low vision as well and don't like the blinking cursor either. I'm using gnome-terminal most of the time and find the big, blinking cursor quite nice. Maybe a non-blinking cursor might catch less attention, especially when you're in some kind of ncurses UI, maybe even one with a changed colorset) and the cursor is somewhere you don't expect it to be. But I agree: the current console cursor isn't friendly to people with low vision. Best regards Robert signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#864320: [RFC] Changing the default cursor on the Linux console?
Hello, I'm here looking for opinions from debian-accessibility from people with low vision. Samuel Thibault, le lun. 10 juin 2019 22:02:05 +0200, a ecrit: > > whenever i have to use the linux console, i have significant > > neurological issues, due to the blinking cursor. > > Oh, I did not know that even just the blinking cursor could have an > impact. > > > there is an ansi sequence that turns off blinking, but it > > frequently gets reset again for unknown reasons. We can probably try to change the default value in the kernel (it's really not only about Debian), if it makes consensus that it doesn't hurt most people. I guess the kernel uses a small blinking cursor by default solely because that was the default VGA hardware parameter. When looking around in xterms and such, I see that they are using by default a blocked cursor. Xterms usually don't make it blink, I see only Gnome-terminal making it blink by default. A non-blinking small cursor would pose visibility problem, but perhaps a non-blinking big cursor would be fine? (perhaps even more visible than the current blinking small cursor?) Samuel
