Re: Two crippling visual bugs about pgAdmin 4: flashing white backgrounds and blinking carets.

Hi,

I've raised below tickets for you, please check:
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8711
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8712

On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM mullvadisen <mullvadisen(at)proton(dot)me> wrote:

> Like I said, they don't allow registration for me. It doesn't matter how
> many times I try (and I have sure tried, over and over). It's the same for
> every major service for the last 10-15 years now. Feel free to post it on
> my behalf.
> On Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 at 10:48 AM, Aditya Toshniwal <
> aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM mullvadisen <mullvadisen(at)proton(dot)me> wrote:
>
>> I'm using pgAdmin 4 on Linux (X11, Plasma, desktop mode, Debian, obtained
>> from pgAdmin's custom APT repository). Naturally, because I value my
>> eyesight and sanity, I use the dark mode. Recently, it has started doing
>> something horrible:
>>
>> 1. Every time you open any new "view" inside the application, it flashes
>> the screen bright white before rendering the new page. For example if you
>> click the "Query Tool" button. It happens every single time, and was sadly
>> not fixed in 9.3 which was just released and which I was hopeful for. This
>> drives me insane and it didn't use to happen.
>>
>
> You can create a bug on github.
>
>>
>> 2. The program doesn't respect my system settings to not blink the caret
>> in text inputs. It keeps blinking even though I've set it to not blink (be
>> fixed as visible) in the KDE settings. This "animation" makes it impossible
>> for me to use the program; I'm forced to write any query etc. in a separate
>> Kate text document (where the caret doesn't blink) and then paste it into
>> pgAdmin 4, because having the pgAdmin 4 window up and working in it becomes
>> impossible due to this "Caret from Hell".
>>
>
> You can create a feature request on github.
>
>>
>> I've looked all over the GUI settings and searched online for some hidden
>> config option to turn this infernal blinking off, but there is just nothing
>> (that I can find after spending countless hours). Please enable this
>> somehow so that people whose brains will never be compatible with stuff
>> moving around or animating on the screen can also use this crucial
>> software. It has overall massively improved in recent years, but these two
>> things sadly really drag it down again.
>>
>> PS: I'm aware that pgAdmin 4 uses Chromium which uses some custom
>> rendering engine from Google, which would maybe explain why it doesn't care
>> about any of my system settings, but nevertheless they cannot have been
>> sadistic enough to *hardcode* the cursor to blink? Words cannot describe
>> how distracting and stressful that is.
>>
>> PS 2: I'm sending this to this e-mail list because you use Github for
>> filing "Issues", and Github doesn't allow account registration ever since
>> they sold out to Microsoft. (No, I'm not making that up. It's been the same
>> every single time I've tried over the years. It consistently refuses, like
>> all major websites today.)
>>
>
> I don't think that is the case, people have created so many Github
> accounts after that (including me). Even then if you're not able to create
> one then let us know, we'll create the bug on your behalf.
>
>>
>> I'm not even sure I'll be able to respond to anything here. I might have
>> to passively read any responses through the web archive depending on how
>> many further hurdles there will be to actually posting/sending this...
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Aditya Toshniwal
> pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Staff SDE II | *enterprisedb.com*
> <https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
>
>
>

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Thanks,
Aditya Toshniwal
pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Staff SDE II | *enterprisedb.com*
<https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
"Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"