ikemitsu

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Q: How to prevent cursor blinking?

In Mountain Lion I was able to stop cursor blinking in some applications by typing this in Terminal:

defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriod -int 100000000000

In Mavericks, however, this no longer works. I wonder why? Does anyone know a workaround?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on Oct 27, 2013 10:00 AM

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by FranckG,Helpful

FranckG Dec 8, 2013 12:56 PM in response to ikemitsu
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Dec 8, 2013 12:56 PM in response to ikemitsu

I've found the answer here: http://osxnotes.net/defaults.html.

The new command to type in Terminal is:

defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOn -float 999999999999

Works for me in Mavericks.
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ikemitsu Dec 8, 2013 1:27 PM in response to FranckG
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Dec 8, 2013 1:27 PM in response to FranckG

Thanks a thousand! Saves my day partly. This works for me at least in Messages but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work in Mail. I wonder if it's possible to define for Mail separately?
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ikemitsu Dec 8, 2013 1:51 PM in response to ikemitsu
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Dec 8, 2013 1:51 PM in response to ikemitsu

defaults write com.apple.Mail NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOff -float 0

or

defaults write com.apple.Mail NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOn -float 999999999999

don't have an effect however. I'm not sure if I have the correct app domain name.
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by FranckG,

FranckG Dec 8, 2013 3:16 PM in response to ikemitsu
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Dec 8, 2013 3:16 PM in response to ikemitsu

The app domain name is com.apple.mail, without the capital letter. I think case is important in this, well, case... But I fear this won't work either, like stated in this thread: http://superuser.com/questions/466660/how-to-disable-blinking-caret-when-editing -text-in-os-x.
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ikemitsu Dec 8, 2013 4:04 PM in response to FranckG
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Dec 8, 2013 4:04 PM in response to FranckG

Yeah, I tried without capitalization too, to no avail.
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