Changing Cursor shape / colour by escape sequence

[Chris Sutcliffe]

Is it possible to change the cursor shape / colour via escape
sequences in MinTTY? Doing some Googling I came across:

echo -ne "\e]?81;0;112c"

Which I understand should set the cursor to a non-blinking block
cursor in an xterm. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work in MinTTY.

Cheers!

Chris

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[Andy Koppe]

> Is it possible to change the cursor shape / colour via escape
> sequences in MinTTY?  Doing some Googling I came across:
>
> echo -ne "\e]?81;0;112c"
>
> Which I understand should set the cursor to a non-blinking block
> cursor in an xterm.  Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work in MinTTY.

Could you point me at a spec for that? I couldn't find it at
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html.

Andy

[Thomas Dickey]

It's for the Linux console (probably not implemented in any X
terminals, though some accrete via cut/paste).

For example: http://linuxgazette.net/137/anonymous.html

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[Chris Sutcliffe]

Hey Andy,

> Could you point me at a spec for that? I couldn't find it at
> http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html.

If I read this properly:

P s = 1 2 → Change text cursor color to P t

Shouldn't:

echo -ne "\e]12;12\a"

Set the text cursor color to blue?

[Chris Sutcliffe]

>> Could you point me at a spec for that? I couldn't find it at
>> http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html.
>
> If I read this properly:
>
> P s = 1 2 → Change text cursor color to P t
>
> Shouldn't:
>
> echo -ne "\e]12;12\a"
>
> Set the text cursor color to blue?

Doing a little more Googling, I found the correct format:

echo -ne "\e]12;<Color Name>\a"

for example:

echo -ne "\e]12;RoyalBlue1\a"

Should set the cursor to RoyalBlue1.

Cheers!

[Andy Koppe]

On Apr 3, 12:41 am, Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> wrote:
> On Apr 2, 5:28 pm, Andy Koppe <andy.ko...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Is it possible to change the cursor shape / colour via escape
> > > sequences in MinTTY?  Doing some Googling I came across:
>
> > > echo -ne "\e]?81;0;112c"
>
> > > Which I understand should set the cursor to a non-blinking block
> > > cursor in an xterm.  Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work in MinTTY.
>
> > Could you point me at a spec for that? I couldn't find it at
> >http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html.
>
> It's for the Linux console (probably not implemented in any X
> terminals, though some accrete via cut/paste).
>
> For example:http://linuxgazette.net/137/anonymous.html

Thanks Thomas, and welcome to the group!

I think I'll give that one a miss then, as it doesn't even appear in
'man console_codes', and of course the cursor shape can be chosen in
the options dialog already.

Andy

[Andy Koppe]

On Apr 3, 3:00 am, Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Could you point me at a spec for that? I couldn't find it at
> >>http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html.
>
> > If I read this properly:
>
> > P s = 1 2 → Change text cursor color to P t
>
> > Shouldn't:
>
> > echo -ne "\e]12;12\a"
>
> > Set the text cursor color to blue?
>
> Doing a little more Googling, I found the correct format:
>
> echo -ne "\e]12;<Color Name>\a"
>
> for example:
>
> echo -ne "\e]12;RoyalBlue1\a"
>
> Should set the cursor to RoyalBlue1.

You're right, those xterm sequences are not currently supported. I
entered issue 78 for this. I'll probably only implement support for
#rrggbb hexadecimal colours though.

(Mental note: must do a full review of the xterm spec.)

Andy