Cursor Not Blinking

[dkrieger]

Is there an option to cause the cursor to blink? I find it to be helpful confirmation that the terminal has (or doesn't have) focus.

[jwilm]

Blinking just hasn't been implemented yet. Even if it were, there's another piece missing to make i stop blinking when the window isn't focused.

[dkrieger]

I thought that might be the case, didn't see an issue for it though. Thanks for the confirmation

[jwilm]

didn't see an issue for it though

Thanks for filing this one!

[moon-chilled]

I'd like to express my support for an option to DISABLE blinking, once it arrives. I detest blinking. The screen is constantly changing, and I can't focus on what I'm writing. Not an attack on people who do like it, or anything, just a request.

[rafi]

@jwilm is the piece (to make cursor stop blinking when the window isn't focused) still missing? :)

[jwilm]

@rafi cursor doesn't blink at all yet

[Thermatix]

@jwilm is cursor blinking implemented yet?

[chrisduerr]

It is not.

[martskins]

any hints on where one should be looking to solve this one?

[chrisduerr]

This isn't super simple, since a proper implementation would probably make use of a common interface to specify things which can automatically repeat based on a timer.

Things like scrolling during selection would also benefit from something like that.

I've personally tried to make a little PoC of something like that work in here: #1512, however there certainly is some complexity to this and I'm not sure which approach I'd be happiest with.

[rochr4]

I also miss blinking cursor, helps on hidpi screens, if it is implemented it should honor .inputrc settings like:

set vi-ins-mode-string \033[1;31m<(ins)>\033[0m \1\e[5 q\2
set vi-cmd-mode-string \033[1;30m<(cmd)>\033[0m \1\e[1 q\2

what alacritty could add is a timer, like xfce4-terminal does it for eg.

[Piping]

need a way to set cursor blinking in alacritty.yaml file.

[ThatOneCalculator]

Any progress on this?

[rumpelsepp]

@ThatOneCalculator #3931

[ThatOneCalculator]

@ThatOneCalculator #3931

Is there a way to use that branch?

[rumpelsepp]

https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/checking-out-pull-requests-locally

[Dettorer]

Please note this branch isn't fully functional yet.

[adityamwagh]

Any update on the implementation?

[Dettorer]

Not yet, see PR #3931

[Adoliin]

Any update?

[rochr4]

It works now, maybe You need to set it like '\1\e[1 q\2' in ~/.inputrc

[AndrewKaeppel]

Add the following to your alacritty.yml:

cursor:
  style:
    blinking: Always
    blink_interval: 500

Then close and reopen your terminal. See the default config for more info.

[hrqmonteiro]

Add the following to your alacritty.yml:

cursor:
  style:
    blinking: Always
    blink_interval: 500

Then close and reopen your terminal. See the default config for more info.

Not working.

[timmyjose]

Add the following to your alacritty.yml:

cursor:
  style:
    blinking: Always
    blink_interval: 500

Then close and reopen your terminal. See the default config for more info.

Not working.

Yup, doesn't work for me either - on macOS.

[aboivin]

This worked for me :

cursor:
  style:
    blinking: Always
  blink_interval: 500

close and reopen

[liuyigh]

Works for me:

cursor:
  style:
    shape: Block
    blinking: Always
  blink_interval: 500

[vishalpaudel]

Stops blinking after some time! How do I fix this?

[kchibisov]

Stops blinking after some time! How do I fix this?

alacritty/alacritty.yml

Line 431 in 2df8f86

#blink_timeout: 5

[unphased]

I can't seem to make it blink any faster than the setting of 500. Can we change this to blink the cursor a bit faster? Is there some kind of internal limitation?

[Skarian]

You need to lower the number, not increase it.

[unphased]

Yeah that's what I'm saying. Setting 300, or 50, still sees it blinking about once a second.

[unphased]

OK I had the blink_interval and blink_timeout listed under style, when they need to be outside, under cursor. All works now. Great.

[unphased]

There's no way to get it to never stop blinking. Config error: blink_timeout: invalid value: integer `257`, expected u8 OK i saw the sample config. 0 means infinite. Good.

[brownjohnf]

Just setting it to `0` works for me to get it to stop blinking.

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On 3/28/23 15:09, Steven Lu wrote: There's no way to get it to never stop blinking. ```Config error: blink_timeout: invalid value: integer `257`, expected u8```

[paulchiu]

This works for me in toml format config.

[cursor]
blink_interval = 500
[cursor.style]
shape = "Block"
blinking = "Always"

[vgnshiyer]

Any idea how to control the way it blinks?

[nixpulvis]

@vgnshiyer see https://alacritty.org/config-alacritty.html. cursor.style.blinking = "Never" | "Off" | "On" | "Always" should be the options we have, along with blink_interval and blink_timeout.

Otherwise, not sure what you mean by "the way it blinks".