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Ncurses UI for QEMU
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config menus are hardly readable when the cursor is a _ (instead of | oder ⌷) #51

Closed holgersson32644 closed 3 years ago

holgersson32644 commented 3 years ago

Hi, my terminal's cursor is a blinking underscore (_), which is hardly readable inside the nemu config UI. Can you somehow work around that in curses, e.g. force another cursor there? Would be great!

Kind regards, Nils

0x501D commented 3 years ago

Hello, ncurses library has no support for saving/changing/restore of cursor shape. This can be done only with escape sequences manipulation. In theory we can add this as feature like "vim" does: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Change_cursor_shape_in_different_modes.

So we can add some parameters in config like this: cursore_blink = 0|1, cursore_shape_type. Also we need to restore initial cursor settings after nemu is exited. So maybe we can implement this feature.

grafin commented 3 years ago

3fd7b59e7e0fd5a096046fac64d310227a3baf0a Used DECSCUSR VT520 escape sequence. Should work as requested. On some VTEs may leave cursor as blinking block after exit, if those VTEs don't support changing cursor type to user default on DECSCUSR 0.

holgersson32644 commented 3 years ago

Thanks a lot, this works fine now!

0x501D commented 3 years ago

This is good, but we should make this action configurable.

grafin commented 3 years ago

b81fb147bcdd7e1bb229006812a047de5216fba6 and d0ef4af0ea7f55da35e5cda22b5faa1231e6180a make an optional parameter in nemu config file. Should be closed for good.