Prevent urxvt hollow cursor

mdi · 2014-08-08 10:34:32

Using urxvt if I accidentally tap my clickpad while urxvt is in focus, the cursor goes "hollow". Toggling focus will bring it back to normal. How can I prevent if from going hollow in the first place?

jasonwryan · 2014-08-08 10:44:06

This is a feature; when the focus moves away from the term, the cursor reflects that fact.

mdi · 2014-08-08 10:57:26

But it's happening anytime I tap the clickpad while urxvt already has focus.

mdi · 2014-08-08 11:08:34

Hmmm. Maybe it has something to do with my window manager (goomwwm).

Trilby · 2014-08-08 12:06:26

And is the mousecursor outside of the urxvt window when you tap it? If so, this would be the expected behavior, wouldn't it?

If you are tapping the clickpad on purpose the solution is easy, don't tap it; if you are tapping it by accident, you may want to check out one of the tools that disables the clickpad while typing.

mdi · 2014-08-08 12:36:01

The mouse cursor is inside urxvt when tapping it. The taps are accidental. I've tried various solutions to disable the clickpad while typing, but I haven't found the right solution yet. I tap the top of the clickpad with my palm while typing, which causes the cursor to go hollow, then I wind up losing the cursor since the hollow cursor is a bit difficult to see.

mdi · 2014-08-08 12:38:06

I just noticed this only seems to happen when I'm running tmux inside urxvt. If I'm not running tmux, I don't see this problem.

mdi · 2014-08-08 12:50:23

I tried turning off all mouse-related tmux options:

set-option -g mode-mouse off
set-option -g mouse-resize-pane off
set-option -g mouse-select-pane off
set-option -g mouse-select-window off
set-option -g mouse-utf8 off

but that didn't seem to work.

jasonwryan · 2014-08-08 19:15:06

Post your relevant config files (at least Xresources and tmux.conf): I can't reproduce this.

mdi · 2014-08-09 00:33:08

.Xdefaults: https://gist.github.com/mdi/ef909b1eca8108e1a6ea
.tmux.conf: https://gist.github.com/mdi/877adf3a98182b8252dd

mdi · 2014-08-09 00:37:07

Got it. It's this line in my .Xdefaults:

URxvt.iso14755: false

Removing that lines fixes the problem. Thanks for all the help!

Last edited by mdi (2014-08-09 00:43:44)

mdi · 2014-08-09 00:45:29

Nope. I spoke too quick. That doesn't fix the issue...

mdi · 2014-08-09 19:55:09

So it seems it has something to do with running urxvt "full-screen".

jasonwryan · 2014-08-09 19:58:27

That sounds like an issue with your window manager (whatever "full-screen" is...)

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Prevent urxvt hollow cursor

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