[Aptitude-devel] Bug#148673: aptitude: resets console cursor to blinking line

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montezelo at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 22:01:53 UTC 2015


Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible


Hello Zack,

2002-05-31 18:57 Zack Weinberg:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.2.11.1-2
>Severity: minor
>
>I have login set the console cursor to a solid, non-flashing block,
>and I want it to stay that way.  When I start aptitude, it issues some
>sort of reset sequence which makes it be a blinking line again.  It
>remains a blinking line after aptitude exits.
>
>This might be a ncurses problem.

My cursor, using konsole, is a solid non-flashing block, and aptitude
never messes with it.  Maybe you meant the traditional VTs or were using
other xterms, though.
  
Can you still reproduce this?


Cheers.
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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>



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