Bug 106784

Summary: konsole draws ghostcursor when inactive. Link to PATCH Included.
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Frode M. Døving <frode>
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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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.