Q: How can I disable the cursor from blinking on a global level (mac os x yosemite)?

This should be of help: http://www.macissues.com/2014/12/08/how-to-change-your-macs-text-cursor-blink-ra te/

Note that the intervals for "on" and "off" are now set separately!

What do you mean by "the menu itself"?

I've just tried the method in the link I posted previously. And the new settings seem to work in most places, but you have to log out and log in to make them work. Safari and Mail seem to be the only exceptions....

Has anyone had success changing the text cursor blink rate in Mac Pages?

I'm running 10.10.5 and in the command line I entered:

defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOn -float 1000000

defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOff -float 1000

I quit all applications, logged out, logged back in, and now the blink rate is as intended everywhere except Pages.

Further, Pages doesn't seem to have a setting within its interface for the blink rate.

Thanks,

Thank you! The blinking was worsening my migraines! I've reset both settings to 2000 which should cut things to 1/4 Hz.