Can I disable blinking cursor when loading/exiting ROMs and when shutting down?

[johncfigueroa]

It may be that I have never noticed it before, but recently - after turning off the "runcommand" menu and updating the available themes, I noticed that whenever I load and exit a ROM, the keyboard cursor is displayed in the upper left corner of the screen.

I found some direction that I thought might help - one user on a Pi forum posed that you could disable the text cursor by adding "vt.global_cursor_default=0" to /boot/cmdline.txt

I did try adding this line and rebooting the device, but it didn't change the behavior... also the post I pulled that advice from is from 2015.

Anyone see this issue or have any ideas? As always I appreciate the community guidance!

[edmaul69]

did you add it to the end of the line? if so try adding it to the middle somewhere. just not in the middle of another command. :)

[BuZz]

runcommand hides the cursor but switches it back on again when returning to ES. could manually remove tput cnorm from the end of /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh although this will get overwritten when updating.

[johncfigueroa]

@edmaul69 I did add it to the end of the line... I noticed all the parameters were on the same line and separated by spaces, so added it directly to the end of the line, but I"ll do what said and place it in the middle - but not in the middle of another command - lol. :-)

Thanks for the help... I think this is the most helpful forum I've ever used.

[johncfigueroa]

@BuZz @edmaul69 Thanks, man - so does that mean that the cursor was hidden by default in the latest RetropieImage, but when I made changes to runcommand I inadvertently switched it back on? I'll remove what you said and try @edmaul69's suggestion as well. Thanks guys for the stellar support and incredible work.

Seriously, this is better than most corporation's customer support.

[BuZz]

Thee cursor is on by default, but when launching from ES it is turned off in most cases (not all as some things require it - eg infocom text adventures), and then back on again (so it is visible while there is a delay to go back into ES).

[johncfigueroa]

@BuZz @edmaul69

Hey guys - I finally got around to making this change it worked like a charm. I exited ES, then made the change from terminal, wrote the changes, and launched ES from terminal.

When I got back and ran my first ROM, the cursor was still there, but every ROM I launched subsequent to that opened and exited without the cursor. I thought that detail my be worth noting for future reference. I'm finally done configuring and learning about Retropie and on to enjoying it thoroughly.

Thank you for all the incredible work, documentation, and support!!!