Re: Will the hardcoded blinking cursor get an option to disable it soon?

Hi Mullvadisen,

We have prioritized the issue and added it to the current sprint. It should
be resolved in the next release (v9.7). We'll assess the feasibility and
keep you updated.

On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM mullvadisen <mullvadisen(at)proton(dot)me> wrote:

> Three months ago, I sent an e-mail to this list about two serious
> annoyances which crippled my use of pgAdmin completely.
>
> One of them was that it had begun showing a white "flash" each time you
> opened a new "page", before drawing the real (dark) background. This was
> luckily fixed shortly afterwards.
>
> However, the second issue, the hardcoded blinking caret which doesn't
> respect system settings nor has any preference to turn it off inside
> pgAdmin, remains. It looks like it has been added with "low" priority in a
> big list of bugs/suggestions which I have no idea how long they will take
> for anyone to care: https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8712
> (I had to ask somebody else to post it on Github because that site doesn't
> let me register an account.)
>
> Since Mozilla and others has ignored important issues for decades, and I'm
> literally screaming from frustration every time I'm using pgAdmin due to
> the blinking caret, I have to ask: is there any chance that this will be
> cared about within a meaningful timeframe? I'm not exaggerating in the
> least when I claim that at least to me, this is a critical bug which
> seriously prevents me from using the program. It really is that annoying. I
> always out of necessity turn off blinking cursors and any other animated
> elements in my computer environment, but it seems impossible for pgAdmin.
>
> Perhaps most of all I wonder how this can be something that only I seem to
> care about. How are you all able to think and type in the SQL query or do
> anything else in the application when there's a blinking caret which
> constantly steals your focus and attention?
>
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