From: allbery@wariat.org (allbery)
Subject: Re: Blinking Cursor in Xterm???
Reply-To: allbery@wariat.org (allbery)
Organization: Akademia Pana Kleksa, Public Access Uni* Site
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As quoted from <1993May13.212321.2563@moepi.do.open.de> by bernward@moepi.do.open.de (Bernward Averwald):
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> Back in the days of X11.1 I did analyse the xterm code. The cursor 
> was implemented by drawing a rectangle around the character. I doesn't
> seem to be changed 'til now.
> But if you have the sources you could add a blinking cursor via
> XtAppAddTimeOut or similar :-|.

The server overhead for this is mildly ridiculous, though (see also DESQview/X,
which does this in its DOS windows).  Do you really want xterm to wake up every
half second and whack the server into doing a bitblt?

++Brandon
