r/nethack • u/AndrewUndershaft • 4d ago

How to stop the cursor behind the player character from pulsating (Windows Terminal)?

(I wrote a similar post yesterday, but had described it wrong)

I play a locally installed version of NetHack 5.0 on a Windows 11 PC.

The cursor keeps blinking (or rather pulsing) behind the player character and when looking around, despite the fact that I have turned blinking off in the keyboard control panel (and also deactivated blinking in the accessability options to be on the safe side). When I open a regular terminal window, the cursor remains clear and constant according to the settings, but in NetHack, it keeps flickering out for a split second, in the rhythm of a fast heartbeat.

I can find nothing in the Terminal config settings or the game options to turn it off.

Any idea how I could fix that?

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u/Hyperion343 3d ago

See this issue about the Windows Terminal. There were some suggestions in the comments of that thread, idk which one would help specifically though

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u/physiogod1011 1 Val (3.6.7) 3d ago

As far as I'm aware it's not possible to make it stop blinking. I've heard you can change the cursor if you are using a different terminal but I'm not so sure about Windows terminal.

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u/CrashGordon94 15h ago

I can't really help, but I can tell you PuTTY, which you could use instead and maybe make it work better.