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Imen

Reputation: 161

How to disable Caret Blinking?

I have created an Eclipse Editor (extends EditorPart) containing an TextViewer. I would like to disable the Caret blinking (I want an Caret allways visible)? How can i do?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4262

Answers (3)

Jelle Geerts
Jelle Geerts

Reputation: 881

If you're on a Unix-like operating system, you can try adding the line gtk-cursor-blink=0 to your $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 file, followed by logging out and back in (to reload the GTK libraries). That should do the trick, in case you can't disable the blinking cursor in the Eclipse preferences.

If that doesn't work, and you're using Xfce, you may try executing the following line in a terminal: xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/CursorBlink -s false

Upvotes: 3

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1327254

As mentioned in this thread:

Yes, if you OS supports it you can set it there (in the OS)
and the editor will honor it if you disable the custom caret on the General > Editors > Text Editors > Accessibility preference page.

Upvotes: 1

Warty
Warty

Reputation: 7405

Google showed me: http://www.gatorspit.com/tips/disable-blinking-cursor.html

However, it removes the blinking carets from ALL of your applications [which includes eclipse], so you probably won't want that ._. Unless.. you totally abhor blinking carets

Upvotes: 0

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