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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 646

How to disable Caret Blinking in Eclipse?

I'm running Eclipse on Windows 7 and I want to disable blinking of cursor in text editor.

How do I do it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1708

Answers (1)

skomisa
skomisa

Reputation: 17373

I don't think there is any way to do this within Eclipse. However, you can do it at the Operating System Level:

Control Panel > Keyboard Properties > Speed Tab > Drag the slider for Cursor blink rate to the far left ("None") > Click OK.

keyboardProperties

The change is immediately effective in Eclipse (no need to restart anything), but be aware that it also affects other applications such as Notepad, Wordpad and Internet Explorer.

However, NetBeans and Opera were unaffected; their cursors continued to blink.

Upvotes: 2

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