Re: blinking cursor

Am 03.01.2026 um 18:32 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]>:
> 
> 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.
>> Install the Qt 5 configuration tool (qt5ct on Linux).
>> 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.
>> 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.
> 

We had a ticket long time ago for this:

https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9287
Actually I don’t know what system property to read to respect the "Prefer non-blinking cursor“ setting in system settings. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any information regarding this.

Stephan

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