This `terminal-cursor-blink-rate` key can be used to enable terminal cursor blinking. The user can set an int value between `100` and `2000` which will be used as blink rate in millisecond. The default value is `0`, which disables cursor blinking. So adding an entry like `terminal-cursor-blink-rate=600` to `~/termux.properties` file will make the cursor attempt to blink every 600ms. Running `termux-reload-settings` command will also update the cursor blinking rate instantaneously if changed.
A background thread is used to control the blinking by toggling the cursor visibility and then invalidating the view every x milliseconds set. This will have a performance impact, so use wisely and at your own risk.
If the cursor itself is disabled, which is controlled by whether DECSET_BIT_CURSOR_ENABLED (DECSET 25, DECTCEM), then blinking will be automatically disabled. You can enable the cursor with `tput cnorm` or `echo -e '\e[?25h'` and disable it with `tput civis` or `echo -e '\e[?25l'`.
Note that you can also change the cursor color by adding `cursor` property to `~/colors.properties` file, like `cursor=#FFFFFF` for a white cursor.
The `TermuxPropertyConstants` class has been updated to `v0.9.0`. Check its Changelog sections for info on changes.
Closes#153
- Decouple the `CursorController`, `TextSelectionCursorController`(previously `SelectionModifierCursorController`) and `TextSelectionHandleView` (previously `HandleView`) from `TerminalView` by moving them to their own class files.
- Fixes#1501 which caused the `java.lang.IllegalStateException: The specified child already has a parent. You must call removeView() on the child's parent first.` exception to be thrown when long pressing the down key while simultaneously long pressing the terminal view for text selection.
Highlighting text in the terminal often makes it hard to read, which
can be problematic for users who want to adjust or review selections
before copying them. For example, the default theme makes white and
green text hard to read on its light gray selection background, and
there are plenty of other themes where the choice of text and cursor
colors would hinder selection readability.
To fix this issue and make selected text more legible in nearly all
combinations of colors, invert selected text instead of highlighting it.
This is more common among terminal emulators anyway:
Invert: xterm, fbcon, kitty, Konsole, Alacritty, Tilix,
gnome-terminal (7)
Highlight: Termux, Terminal.app, iTerm2, Windows Terminal (4)
There is currently a bug where selection rendering is broken if the
active cursor shape is anything other than the default solid box.
Selected text is normally highlighted by effectively rendering a cursor
over all of the characters in the selection region, but if the cursor is
a bar, the resulting selection highlight is too narrow to cover the full
width of the selection. Similarly, if the cursor is an underline, all of
the selected text will be underlined instead of highlighted.
To fix this issue, treat selections different from cursors in the
rendering logic and force the renderer to always use the block cursor
style for rendering selections. That way, we get correct behavior
regardless of what the current cursor shape is.
I want to use the renderer with a custom canvas without having to render to an Android View which requires a context and all sorts of stuff.
Can't currently do that because the renderer is package-private
