Thread: Any Way to Keep the Cursor from Blinking?
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Old 03-21-2017, 11:58 AM   #4
KevinH
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That set of terminal commands will only work on official Mac apps from Apple and other code that uses the official Mac gui toolkit. Sigil is a cross-platform Qt app.

Qt looks for a system setting in Linux when running gtk3, and in Windows settings to determine how to set the cursor blink rate, but will not even look at all on Mac OS X since Mac OS X does not have an official user setting for it.

On Qt, this setting is called cursorFlashTime.

I will add a Sigil setting to allow users to set that value (set it to something negative to stop all blinking) in a future release. Our Sigil tree is currently locked against changes that will need translations in preparation for our upcoming Sigil 0.9.8 release which should be made quite soon now.

So look for something in Sigil 0.9.9 (not the upcoming Sigil 0.9.8) in a few months to allow you to control that on Mac OSX.

This really is a deficiency in Accessibility Settings under Mac OS X given a user setting exists on all other platforms.

Thanks for your bug report.


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