Terminal cursor change after quitting pacseek

[vaygr]

So I have underline as a terminal cursor.

After quitting pacseek it's reset to block, which pacseek uses I assume.

[moson-mo]

I'm not aware that pacseek (or the library that is being used) can even change the cursor style.
Isn't that even a pure terminal-emulator setting?

Please provide more information:

1. Terminal emulator
2. Shell
3. How/Where did you set up the cursor style

[vaygr]

I wonder if it comes from the Go library..

1. st 0.8.5 with the patch
2. bash 5.1.016
3. see the patch in 1., but it's set via ~/.Xresources with st.cursorstyle: 3 after applying this patch

[vaygr]

A temporary workaround for me could be this:

$ alias pacseek='pacseek; echo -e -n "\x1b[\x33 q"'

But it would be better for pacseek to not mess up with the cursor in the first place if possible.

[moson-mo]

Yepp I can reproduce it.

Seems it's connected to this commit in the upstream library gdamore/tcell@761abf6

Only seems to happen with the InputField component of tview 🤔

Will probably take some time and involvement of the library devs to get it fixed. Need to do some more analysis on this.

Good that you have a workaround for now. 😉

[moson-mo]

Hey @vaygr

Seems there is no proper way to detect the "current style". See gdamore/tcell#559 (comment)
Setting up the default style in the terminal emulator settings should do the trick.
Now, I don't know if that is an options in st, but in xfce4-terminal doing it this way, it works fine.
If not, I'm afraid you'll have to live with the workaround.

[vaygr]

I see.

Well, the above patches do just that. But my assumption is that xfce4-terminal always makes sure the cursor stays as assigned, while st does so only on init.

Thanks for investigating!

[vaygr]

Yeah, I just checked: echo -e -n "\x1b[\x30 q" has no effect in xfce4-terminal when the cursor set to blinking underline.