Cursor shape with ncurses programs gets reset

[Dave Wood]

I have a flashing block cursor set up because I find it very hard to 
see the normal _ underline cursor - expecially when searching through man
pages etc.

The problem comes when I run ncurses programs in screen. The cursor gets
reset to underline whenever I run those programs in screen.

Does anyone know a way around this? I have set up custom terminfo files
with tic. Would there be a setting that would affect ncurses programs
perhaps?


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