On Feb 21, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca> wrote: >The block cursor is just personal preference. There have been Linux kernel >patches for a long time to provide a block cursor, but I think Linus didn't >like them for some reason. With 2.2.x kernels try that in ~/.bash_profile: echo -ne '\e[?17;574;0c' echo -ne '\e[?17;584;0c' I use the second one for root shells. -- ciao, Marco