How do i stop the blinking cursor in my cygwin ? I am writing a program , Its a gaming program using multi-threading But the cursor is blinking on the console. How do i make it stop ? How do I remove that from my console?
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How do i stop the blinking cursor in my cygwin ? I am writing a program , Its a gaming program using multi-threading But the cursor is blinking on the console. How do i make it stop ? How do I remove that from my console?
Do you want to switch the cursor off completely or do you just want to disable the blinking? The DECTCEM control sequence can do the former, whereas DECSCUSR can do the latter.
Unfortunately the default Cygwin console doesn’t support either of those, but the “mintty” terminal does.