Re: losing vc cursor

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Vincent Lefevre(vincent@vinc17.org) is reported to have said:
> On 2004-10-19 12:45:32 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > I also am experiencing that Hugo.  I 'think' I have narrowed it down
> > to running either rxvt or xterm.  If I don't have X running I never
> > lose the cursor, but with a term running in X, I 'sometimes' do.
> 
> I don't know if this is related to your problems, but the cursor may
> sometimes become invisible when a curses-based application crashes or
> a ssh connection closes while a curses-based application was running.
> 
> The "reset" command should restore the terminal's settings. I never
> had any problem with xterm, but when I was using rxvt, the cursor
> remained invisible. The solution was to change the rs1 value in the
> rxvt terminfo database.
I wasn't losing the curson in xterm or rxvt, it was on any og the
consoles (F1-7 in my case).  Reset had no effect on it but doing
echo -e '\033[?86c'
as suggested in this thread, did.

Thanks anyway.

Wayne

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