Re: losing vc cursor

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 06:57:15AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi Debian!
> 
> At times I lose my cursor in a vc.
> Is there a way to try to get it back?
> This is probably related to the fact that I use 2.6.7-Ruby multi-user 
> Linux. I'll ask there...

I sometimes lose my cursor on the tty's.  I suspect the cursor becomes
black.  I then repair it with the following:

==============
#!/bin/sh

echo -e '\033[?86c'
==============

I don't know whether this might help in your case.

Regards
Johann

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