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Re: blinking xterm?
- From: Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, Lester Ingber <ingber at ingber dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:47:21 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: blinking xterm?
- References: <20040319162221.GA1776@ingber.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot 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.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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