Debian 3.0r5 Cursor??

A long time Slackware junkie I thought I'd try Debian 3.0r5;
purchasing the 7 CD distribution.. In touch with list member James
Miller I find he hasn't experienced my problem with his install, of
another Debian version; therefore this listing.

The problem is that I don't like a block cursor, preferring the old
standard IBM underline... I find selecting Debian "vanilla", kernel
2.2.20, that is the case but I want to install kernel 2.4 "bf24" that
defaults to the block cursor for the install and run...

I've exhausted all my books on the subject and looked at the various
bash rc files, etc, to no avail... Never running into this before;
I'm stuck... Is there an easy fix???

So far I've only installed the very basic files plus a few apps I
can't do without," -- no GUI, etc... TIA!!
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Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20-1)
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Re: Debian 3.0r5 Cursor??

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Hal MacArgle wrote:
>
> A long time Slackware junkie I thought I'd try Debian 3.0r5;
> purchasing the 7 CD distribution.. In touch with list member James
> Miller I find he hasn't experienced my problem with his install, of
> another Debian version; therefore this listing.
>
> The problem is that I don't like a block cursor, preferring the old
> standard IBM underline... I find selecting Debian "vanilla", kernel
> 2.2.20, that is the case but I want to install kernel 2.4 "bf24" that
> defaults to the block cursor for the install and run...
>
> I've exhausted all my books on the subject and looked at the various
> bash rc files, etc, to no avail... Never running into this before;
> I'm stuck... Is there an easy fix???
>
> So far I've only installed the very basic files plus a few apps I
> can't do without," -- no GUI, etc... TIA!!

I think you should take a look at this paper - section 5.9 it states:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html

The cursor appearance is controlled by a

[?1;2;3c

escape sequence where 1, 2 and 3 are parameters described below. If you
omit any of them, they will default to zeroes.

Parameter 1 specifies cursor size (0=default, 1=invisible, 2=underline,
...., 8=full block) + 16 if you want the software cursor to be applied + 32
if you want to always change the background colour + 64 if you dislike
having the background the same as the foreground. Highlights are ignored
for the last two flags.

......... Hope that works..

J.

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