Re: blinking cursor

On 1/3/26 12:23 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
>
>
> On 1/2/26 21:19, Tom Goldring wrote:
>> Is there any way to turn it off in MacOS 15.7.3 or any other version? 
>> I find it intolerable. I tried the "Prefer non-blinking cursor" in my 
>> System Settings, but it doesn't work in LyX.
>>
> This is a Qt setting. The following works on Linux Mint and may be 
> doable on MacOS.
>
>  1. Install the Qt 5 configuration tool (qt5ct on Linux).
>  2. Run the tool. If you get a warning about QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME not
>     being set, you have to add the line QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct to
>     an appropriate configuration file and reboot. In my case, I was
>     able to add it to ~/.config/qt5ct/qt5ct.conf. Other Linux users
>     report putting it in /etc/environment or other places. You'll have
>     to do a little research to find the appropriate file on a Mac.
>  3. Once the configuration tool is running without warnings, go to the
>     Interface tab and change "Cursor flash time" to 0ms. Click Apply
>     and then start LyX and confirm that the cursor is rock solid.
>
> Note that this will affect all apps on your system using Qt5, not just 
> LyX.
>
I am not sure if we use Qt5 or Qt6 with the OSX packages, but qt6ct also 
exists.

Looking at the source code, we do seem to get the cursor flash time from 
Qt, so I'd expect us to respect this setting wherever it comes from. If 
it's <=0, we do not start the blinking.

Riki

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