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Skaperen

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Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 862

xfceterminal, cursor color

i am already using xfceterminal while still under unity. i am wondering if there is a way to set the cursor to do inversion instead of a color.  by inversion i mean that in the one cell the cursor is on, show the background in the text color and show the text in the background color.  or maybe define it with 2 colors for text, where i can invert the colors and maybe make them somewhat brighter.  i don't need a flashing cursor and am glad it doesn't. but someone may want a flashing cursor (but i'd want a way to make it not flash).

alcornoqui

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Registered: 2014-07-28

Posts: 832

Re: xfceterminal, cursor color

Can you post your ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc and/or a screen capture of the Colors tab in Xfce Terminal preferences, like this:

I think you can get what you want by putting the ColorCursor value between brackets in your terminalrc file, but I'm not really sure!

juky

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Registered: 2018-12-18

Posts: 5

Re: xfceterminal, cursor color

You have to pass the value false on line ( MiscCursorBlinks=FALSE )
of the file ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc , or check :

@+

Skaperen

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Registered: 2013-06-15

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Re: xfceterminal, cursor color

@juky i don't see that much on mine.

at least it's not flashing right now.

@alcornaqui
~/.config/xfce does not exist.  here are the 5 captures from xfceterminal preferences:

alcornoqui

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Re: xfceterminal, cursor color

@Skaperen The location is~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc 

What version of Xfce Terminal are you using?

xfce4-terminal -V
xfce4-terminal 0.8.3 (Xfce 4.12)

Skaperen

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Re: xfceterminal, cursor color

this is what is available in ubuntu xenial xerus 16.04.5 LTS updated and upgraded as of this past monday.

lt2a/forums /home/forums 1> xfce4-terminal -V
xfce4-terminal 0.6.3 (Xfce 4.12)

Copyright (c) 2003-2012
	The Xfce development team. All rights reserved.

Written by Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>
and Nick Schermer <nick@xfce.org>.

Please report bugs to <http://bugzilla.xfce.org/>.
lt2a/forums /home/forums 2> dpkg -l|gf xfce
ii  libxfce4ui-1-0                      4.12.1-2               amd64                  widget library for Xfce - Gtk+2 variant
ii  libxfce4ui-common                   4.12.1-2               all                    common files for libxfce4ui
ii  libxfce4util-bin                    4.12.1-2               amd64                  tools for libxfce4util
ii  libxfce4util-common                 4.12.1-2               all                    common files for libxfce4util
ii  libxfce4util7                       4.12.1-2               amd64                  Utility functions library for Xfce4
ii  xfce4-terminal                      0.6.3-2ubuntu1         amd64                  Xfce terminal emulator
lt2a/forums /home/forums 3> cat ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc
[Configuration]
MiscAlwaysShowTabs=FALSE
MiscBell=FALSE
MiscBordersDefault=TRUE
MiscCursorBlinks=FALSE
MiscCursorShape=TERMINAL_CURSOR_SHAPE_BLOCK
MiscDefaultGeometry=166x46
MiscInheritGeometry=FALSE
MiscMenubarDefault=TRUE
MiscMouseAutohide=FALSE
MiscToolbarDefault=FALSE
MiscConfirmClose=TRUE
MiscCycleTabs=TRUE
MiscTabCloseButtons=TRUE
MiscTabCloseMiddleClick=TRUE
MiscTabPosition=GTK_POS_TOP
MiscHighlightUrls=TRUE
MiscScrollAlternateScreen=TRUE
FontName=Monospace 14
ColorForeground=#dddddddddddd
ColorBackground=#000000003333
ColorCursor=#888888888888
ColorBoldUseDefault=FALSE
ColorBold=#ffffffffffff

lt2a/forums /home/forums 4>

what would be most flexible is a duplicate group of settings specifically for the one cell the cursor is on.  how much is involved in building components of XFCE.  i do recall looking at source code of another part of XFCE many years ago that was in C.