Bug#492124: apparently no way to disable blinking cursor
Hi,
Frederik Eaton wrote:
> The word "torture", indeed, conjures up an image of something more
> painful than annoying. That's why I prepended the words "Chinese
> water". According to Wikipedia, Chinese water torture "was supposed to
> drive its victim insane with the stress of water dripping on a part of
> the forehead for a very long time". It doesn't sound OMG to me. For
It is OMG. Because it IS torture. And comparing that with a blinking cursor
is insane.
> some of those who suffer from autism or epilepsy or ADHD, and can't
> "just ignore" the blinking, it must be an apt comparison. I am well
> aware that most people aren't bothered by it.
Indeed, but... The problem is that you can't expect any app handling
this itself. This would be insane.
> > Hmm. Discussion with upstream says me that OOo should also honour the
> > settings you did in Gnome already. Did you install openoffice.org-gtk?
> > Without it you don't have GTkified UI and no GTK integration.
>
> Oh, thanks for letting me know. But ... I've tried installing
> openoffice.org-gtk-gnome, openoffice.org-gnome, and
> openoffice.org-gtk, and the problem persists. It doesn't look like
> openoffice.org is using gtk yet though. The menubar is shaded and the
> menus only have a black outline on the bottom and right sides. Do I
> need to restart something?
That makes me think that OOo didn't detect on startup that you are under
GNOME. You *are* under GNOME (or Xfce which somehow is detected as GNOME),
right?
Otherwise, you can try export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP="gnome" before starting
OOo. (or "kde" for KDE, where the same should work, according to
upstream)
Regards,
Rene
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