postmarketos-ui-fbkeyboard: cursor blinks
Describe your issue
What's the expected behaviour?
No blinking cursor to not cause excess current consumption and draining the battery, a real problem on ebook readers.
What's the current behaviour?
The cursor blinks and excess current consumpiotn
How to reproduce your issue?
Just select fbkeyboard as ui in pmbootstrap init, install and boot.
What device are you using?
kobo-clara and tolino-shine2hd
On what postmarketOS version did you encounter the issue?
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edge ( master
branch) -
v23.06
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v22.12
(Supported until 2023-07-06) -
I confirm that the issue still is present after running sudo apk upgrade -a
On what environment did you encounter the issue?
Environments
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GNOME Shell on Mobile -
Phosh -
Plasma Mobile -
Sxmo (Wayland/Sway) Please post the output of sxmo_version.sh
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Other: Please fill out
How did you get postmarketOS image?
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from https://images.postmarketos.org -
I built it using pmbootstrap -
It was preinstalled on my device
What's the build date of the image? (in yyyy-mm-dd format)
Additional information
seems to be fixable via /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/cursor_blink The question is where to fix it. In deviceinfo avoid_animations=y and some logic to control said sysfs file?