rootninja

You can edit the profiles and change things like cursor shape, text font, colors, etc. But where’s the option to make the cursor blink? Nowhere to be found, thats where.

Making your cursor blink in gnome terminal is easy enough… you can do it graphically through gconf-editor, the ‘regedit’ like interface for modifying gconf keys, or there’s a simple one-liner to handle it.

gconftool-2 -s /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/cursor_blink_mode -t string on

There are some other options that are disabled by default, and you can change them in the preferences window, through gconf-editor, or using gconftool-2.

One key binding in particular that I like to change is “toggle_menubar”. I don’t usually need the bar along the top taking up space, but sometimes I like to change the colors around, or at least have the option to from the terminal. It’s disabled and I like it set to “m”