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Re: blinking xterm?
I just discovered this on my own: seee my last email. However,
my .tcshrc commands were overriding this.
However, this does not change blinking in mutt; I'll work on that.
Thanks.
Lester
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:12:28PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
: Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:12:28 -0500 (EST)
:
: On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lester Ingber wrote:
:
: > I can see that this could be a nice feature for some users. However,
: > can I set an option to suppress blinking, e.g., similar to being
: > able to use +bc to turn off text cursor blinking?
:
: It's a resource-setting (noting that my wording is a little convoluted):
:
: showBlinkAsBold (class ShowBlinkAsBold)
: Tells xterm whether to display text with blink-attribute the
: same as bold. If xterm has not been configured to support
: blinking text, the default is ``true.'', which corresponds to
: older versions of xterm, otherwise the default is ``false.''
:
: assuming that's what we're talking about, "xterm -v" would show
:
: XFree86 4.4(185)
:
: > Thanks.
: >
: > Lester
: >
: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:47:21PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
: > : Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:47:21 -0500 (EST)
: > : From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
: > : To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, Lester Ingber <ingber@ingber.com>
: > : Subject: Re: blinking xterm?
: > : In-Reply-To: <20040319162221.GA1776@ingber.com>
: > :
: > : yOn Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lester Ingber wrote:
: > :
: > : > I just installed the current X packages, noticing that a new xterm
: > : > package also was installed.
: > : >
: > : > I'm getting lots of blinking screens, under mutt, and sometimes just
: > : > entering simple text?
: > :
: > : xterm patch #185 implements blinking text.
: > :
: > : offhand, if you're using mutt linked with slang, it misuses blink
: > : attribute in the expectation that the terminal emulator will either
: > : ignore it or produce a bright background.