Overriding cursor shape seems not working in --session

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I use kitty -o cursor_shape=underline --session $PWD/.kitty/local.conf to launch a kitty session local.conf

launch --hold htop

But when I q in the htop to back to shell, the cursor does not set to underline but box instead. How can I fix it? Thanks!

[kovidgoyal]

read the docs of the cursor_shape option.

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The cursor shape can be one of block, beam, underline. Note that when reloading the config this will be changed only if the cursor shape has not been set by the program running in the terminal. This sets the default cursor shape, applications running in the terminal can override it. In particular, shell integration in kitty sets the cursor shape to beam at shell prompts. You can avoid this by setting shell_integration to no-cursor.

I have shell_integration no-cursor no-title in my config. And when I use launch --hold cat, I see the cursor is underline as expected but when I ctrl-c it becomes block. So it's overridden by something else?

[kovidgoyal]

This should take care of it: 3755832

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Thanks!