Blinking cursor

[andmarti1424]

Hello. Thank you for maintaining kmscon. I would like to know if there is a way to use blinking cursor.
Did not find anything in the docs. Thank you.

[Aetf]

I don't think this is implemented. PRs are welcome :)

[andmarti1424]

Any tip on what part of the code should be handled and how? another question: can kmscon work with programs that write on framebuffer like vlc for videos or links -g for graphic browsing, or fbi for viewing images?? Thanks.

[Aetf]

That likely has to be implemented in libtsm. The current cursor handling as you can see is pretty rudimentary: inverse the cell and done. So kmscon doesn't actually have the concept of a cursor.

However, it may not be easy to implement a blinking cursor in libtsm because it is just a state machine, and have no clue of an external timer source, which is required to animate the cursor.

So one potential direction:

• expose current cursor to kmscon in tsm_screen_draw_cb
• teach kmscon how to draw a cursor
• implement blinking

can kmscon work with programs that write on framebuffer like vlc for videos or links -g for graphic browsing, or fbi for viewing images

I'm not very familiar with Linux framebuffer. I haven't tried this before. But my guess is it won't work.

However I won't be surprised if there's some protocol allowing passing the framebuffer device between programs.

[andmarti1424]

Thank you! Will take a look at the code.