Okay, I noted a few months back that I and many other people noticed and hated that the Gnome terminal all of a sudden did not have an option to turn off the cursor blinking, but was tied to a global option to turn all cursor blinking on or off.

Well, I recently installed Mandriva 2009 and guess what…the cursor still blinks and there is still no option to turn it off. However, I was able to find a way:

• Run gconf-editor (you can install it with sudo urpmi gconf-editor)
• Navigate to /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/
• Set the key “cursor_blink_mode” to off (You can add the key if needed by right-clicking and selecting “New Key”)

Now I get to use the Gnome terminal (my favorite, for some reason) and not have to see that horribly blinking cursor. Yay.