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
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.
Created attachment 11521 [details] local copy of patch
The reason the cursor is ghosted is to notify user that Konsole no longer has the input focus.