LyX for Mac

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 19/02/2022 à 16:23, Stephan Witt a écrit :
>> Does https://www.macissues.com/2014/12/08/how-to-change-your-macs-text-cursor-blink-rate/ help?
> 
> No, not really. I knew this tipp and it doesn’t help with LyX on Mac.
> 
> It has an effect for Safari and e.g. SourceTree but not with Apple Mail or LyX. Qt doesn’t care for it.
> 
> ======= 8< Qt documentation >8 =======
> cursorFlashTime : int
> This property holds the text cursor's flash (blink) time in milliseconds
> The flash time is the time required to display, invert and restore the caret display. Usually the text cursor is displayed for half the cursor flash time, then hidden for the same amount of time, but this may vary.
> The default value on X11 is 1000 milliseconds. On Windows, the Control Panel value is used and setting this property sets the cursor flash time for all applications.
> ======= 8< Qt documentation >8 =======
> 
> IMO it is an Qt bug. One may work around it. But I’m not sure how to do it right.

We can have special mac code to query the OS value, right?

But I agree that an OS setting nobody knows about is not really helpful.

JMarc