Bug#492124: apparently no way to disable blinking cursor
> 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.
The comparison was between water dripping on forehead, and cursor
blinking in eyes, as I imagine you understood. If you want to suggest
a better way of phrasing it, feel free to do so, but I don't see what
the big deal is. I don't believe any reasonable reader thinks that the
source I am quoting is arguing that people are being forced to use
these applications as a form of punishment, which is how you seem to
be interpreting it. The comparison was to the sensation, not the
context in which the sensation is administered.
> > 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?
Nope, just gnome-settings-daemon so I can use gtk apps.
> Otherwise, you can try export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP="gnome" before starting
> OOo. (or "kde" for KDE, where the same should work, according to
> upstream)
Thanks, that works!
Frederik
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