Re: A_BLINK has no effect in Xfce-terminal

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Virchanza wrote:

> I was debugging a program of mine that uses A_BLINK. The problem I was
> having was that A_BLINK was simply having no effect, i.e. it wasn't making
> text blink on the screen. I was running my program in Xfce-terminal (this is
> the terminal emulator that comes with the Xfce desktop environment for
> Linux).
>
> Anyway, on a hunch, I opened up a fresh terminal outside of X Windows, and
> ran my program again. Lo and behold, the text flashed as intended.
>
> Is anyone aware of any issues with A_BLINK when it comes to X Windows
> terminal emulators on Linux?

Some emulators implement blink, some implement it "some" of the time
(I noticed one a while back that doesn't combine blink with color...).

Looking at xfce-terminal 0.2.8, I see it doesn't implement blink
(using vttest, menu 2 - vttest shows other problems).

On Debian/testing - I see it also sets $TERM to "xterm" which is 
incorrect.  I hadn't paid much attention to xfce-terminal specifically 
since it's just a lightweight (though ldd lists 56 libraries) wrapper for 
the VTE widget, which is used in gnome-terminal.

A terminal description that matches the terminal properly won't list 
capabilities that the terminal doesn't support.

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