Blinking prompt cursor after committing with lazygit and urxvt & VSCode term on Windows

[ygaeon]

Describe the bug When using lazygit, with rxvt-unicode, and exits, sometimes the cursor is blinking whilst I normally have a non-blinking cursor in the shell.

To Reproduce I believe the following should trigger the behavior:

Start: my prompt cursor is not blinking

1. mkdir test && cd test
2. git init
3. echo "Hello" > world
4. lazygit
5. Commit the changes with a message (I think any message will do, but here I used "test")
6. Quit lazygit

Now, my prompt cursor is blinking.

Expected behavior Cursor should be in the same state as when lazygit was started.

Version info:

$ lazygit --version
commit=, build date=, build source=unknown, version=unversioned, os=linux, arch=amd64, git version=2.41.0
$ equery l lazygit
 * Searching for lazygit ...
[I-O] [  ] dev-vcs/lazygit-0.40.0:0

Additional context

• x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.31-r2:0

[mark2185]

Could you try other terminal emulators? E.g. kitty, terminator etc.?

[ygaeon]

Kitty 0.29.2 cursor_blink_interval 0 -> ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf Ran my test -- no blinking cursor

Alacritty 0.12.1 Ran my test -- no blinking cursor

WezTerm 20230408-112425 Ran my test -- no blinking cursor

Conclusion: urxvt does things differently :-) (updated the original report)

[bartoszluka]

Also happens on Windows in VSCode terminal. When exiting it changes the configured cursor to (probably a default) blinking block, while my configured style is nonblinking vertical line.

I checked that the last version that didn't change the cursor style upon exiting is 0.29, so maybe that helps

[ygaeon]

Thank you @bartoszluka, for finding other sources of this issue. I really like my urxvt and would want to see this fixed in lazygit for sure.

[unikitty37]

Same here on macOS in VSCode terminal. I don't even have to exit — as soon as lazygit prompts me for input (such as a commit message), the cursor is blinking.

Blinking cursors are a severe distraction for some people, so if lazygit must override the cursor, could it at least set it to a non-blinking block?

As it is, I have to juggle positioning VSCode and a separate terminal rather than simply use the built-in VSCode terminal. (Also, as a note, this doesn't occur in iTerm 2, either…)

[ygaeon]

I've noticed that if I have a blinking cursor, after using lazygit, and I just start nvim/neovim and quit, the cursor is reset to what I want.

[unikitty37]

Interestingly, lazygit resets the cursor when I quit — it just blinks while I'm using lazygit in VSCode…