Bug 106784

Summary:	konsole draws ghostcursor when inactive. Link to PATCH Included.
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Frode M. Døving <frode>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	local copy of patch

Description Frode M. Døving 2005-06-04 17:49:08 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.1)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package
Compiler:          gcc 3,3.5 
OS:                Linux

When inactive, konsole draws a ghostcursor, to some people that is annoying.

Audun Hove <audun@fud.no> made a patch to make this optional.
With the patch you can set DrawGhostCursor = false in your konsolerc to disable the ghostcursor.

The default setting is true, which is the current KDE default.

Patch and screenshots at: http://frode.kde.no/dull/ghostcursor/

The patch is for kdebase 3.4.0.


- Frode

Comment 1 Kurt Hindenburg 2005-06-04 19:24:31 UTC

I'm not sure why people find it annoying.  It is to let the user know that the window/shell doesn't have the keyboard focus.

The patch is fairly simple though.

Comment 2 Kurt Hindenburg 2005-06-20 03:18:58 UTC

Created attachment 11521 [details]
local copy of patch

Comment 3 Kurt Hindenburg 2005-06-20 03:19:48 UTC

The reason the cursor is ghosted is to notify user that Konsole no longer has the input focus.