Re: Getting a cursor in console

[Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>]

Joe Malik wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:45:02PM -0500, Harvey Ussery wrote:
>  
>
> > I installed DebianPPC3.0(Woody) on an 800Mhz iMac 17"LCD. When working 
> > in Debian in a console, either from the command line or within a text 
> > editor (nano), I don't have a cursor marking the point of input. This is 
> > a little disconcerting, especially in those contexts where the presence 
> > or absence of white space is critical.
> >
> > How can I configure my console so that the point-of-input cursor will 
> > always be present?
> >    
>
> Harvey,
>
> the cursor might be set to the same color as the background and
> is therefore invisible or simply set to invisible mode. To make the 
> cursor non-blinking, visible and white enter
>
> echo -e '\033[?17;0;500c'
Thanks, Joe, this seems to have done the trick--I now have my white 
flashing cursor.

> If this helps take a look at the kernel documentation for details, 
> the relevant part is "Software cursor for vga" (file VGA-softcursor.txt)
I'm embarassed to say so, but I couldn't find doc specifcally for 
kernel. I looked in /usr/doc & /usr/share/doc

Thanks again.    --Harvey

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