[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] hide cursor on terminal

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Mon Oct 14 02:11:13 CEST 2002


Hi,

> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:26:15PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > Hey. I would just commit this directly, but I'm not too familiar with
> > getch2.c so I'd like to run it by everyone first. This patch hides the
> > cursor when getch2 is enabled, which is needed when using the bes on
> > some cards, since the annoying flashing cursor appears over top of the
> > overlay. The old TOOLS/mpconsole script I wrote works around this, but
> > since it's mostly obsolete already I'd like to go ahead and make it
> > entirely obsolete. If no one objects I'll commit this patch soon.
> 
> Could you explain shortly how this is suppoesed to work?  I applied your
> patch and rebuilt, but I can still the cursor with commands like
> 
>   clear && mplayer -vo mga /var/tmp/FinalFantasy.avi > /dev/null

hehe :)
as you sent the disable cursor ANSi codes to /dev/null :)


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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