1 Software cursor for VGA
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4 by Pavel Machek <pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
5 and Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
7 Linux now has some ability to manipulate cursor appearance. Normally,
8 you can set the size of hardware cursor. You can now play a few new
9 tricks: you can make your cursor look like a non-blinking red block,
10 make it inverse background of the character it's over or to highlight
11 that character and still choose whether the original hardware cursor
12 should remain visible or not. There may be other things I have never
15 The cursor appearance is controlled by a ``<ESC>[?1;2;3c`` escape sequence
16 where 1, 2 and 3 are parameters described below. If you omit any of them,
17 they will default to zeroes.
20 specifies cursor size::
27 + 16 if you want the software cursor to be applied
28 + 32 if you want to always change the background color
29 + 64 if you dislike having the background the same as the
32 Highlights are ignored for the last two flags.
35 selects character attribute bits you want to change
36 (by simply XORing them with the value of this parameter). On standard
37 VGA, the high four bits specify background and the low four the
38 foreground. In both groups, low three bits set color (as in normal
39 color codes used by the console) and the most significant one turns
40 on highlight (or sometimes blinking -- it depends on the configuration
44 consists of character attribute bits you want to set.
46 Bit setting takes place before bit toggling, so you can simply clear a
47 bit by including it in both the set mask and the toggle mask.
52 To get normal blinking underline, use::
56 To get blinking block, use::
60 To get red non-blinking block, use::
62 echo -e '\033[?17;0;64c'