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)
I've found the answer here: http://osxnotes.net/defaults.html.
The new command to type in Terminal is:
defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOn -float 999999999999Works for me in Mavericks.
I've found the answer here: http://osxnotes.net/defaults.html.
The new command to type in Terminal is:
defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOn -float 999999999999Works for me in Mavericks.
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?
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.
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.
Yeah, I tried without capitalization too, to no avail.
How to prevent cursor blinking?