Re: Change colour of cursor and matching bracket

Marcin Szamotulski wrote:

> On 23:53 Sun 30 Sep , Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> >
> > Dominique Pelle wrote:
> >
> > > Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > >
> > > > Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> On 30.09.12 11:12, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > >> > Where in the fine manual is it mentioned how to change the colour of
> > > >> > the cursor and the colour of the matching parenthesis / bracket for
> > > >> > all file types? I have tried ":h cursor color" and several other
> > > >> > phrases, the only relevant one that I found it "h color" which did not
> > > >> > lead me to the answer. I have tried "highlight MatchParen cterm=bold
> > > >> > ctermfg=red ctermbg=blue" but this did not change the colour of the
> > > >> > matching parenthesis or bracket.
> > > >>
> > > >> For the cursor, I just set the initial colour in the xterm:
> > > >>
> > > >> col='-fg yellow -bg darkslategrey -cr red' # Colours
> > > >> /usr/bin/xterm $col # and lots more options.
> > > >>
> > > >> In Vim, I then only change the cursor colour to indicate whether we're
> > > >> in insert mode or not, without having to look down at the status bar:
> > > >>
> > > >> " Cursor Appearance: (Insert_Mode == Green, Normal_Mode == Red)
> > > >> if &term =~ "xterm"
> > > >> let &t_SI = "\<Esc>]12;green\x7"
> > > >> let &t_EI = "\<Esc>]12;red\x7"
> > > >> endif
> > > >>
> > > >> But the method could be used in other contexts, I guess.
> > > >>
> > > >> As regards MatchParen colouring, I've only made sure that is turned
> > > >> off, since it drove me nuts when I tried it. The bouncing cursor is more
> > > >> than enough.
> > > >
> > > > I also use a different cursor color for Insert mode. It's nice, but
> > > > recently it has started to cause terminal window flicker. I asked
> > > > Thomas Dickey and he blames Ubuntu Compiz. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and
> > > > an automatic update about a month ago started the problem. It first
> > > > happened after a reboot, one of the updates before that must have caused
> > > > it.
> > > >
> > > > Still don't know how to fix it. It gets a bit annoying. Searching for
> > > > Ubuntu screen flicker has many hits, but I haven't spotted the right one
> > > > yet.
> > >
> > >
> > > I also use different colors for the cursor in insert mode
> > > vs normal mode with xubuntu-12.04 (with all updates)
> > > and I have not noticed any flicker. Perhaps you can
> > > try whether installing xfce solves your flicker issue:
> > >
> > > 1/ sudo apt-get update
> > > 2/ sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
> > > 3/ Log out.
> > > 4/ Select xfce to login
> > >
> > > I remember having very slow refresh and flicker
> > > in vim a long time ago, and solved it at the time
> > > by installing the latest Nvidia driver.
> >
> > I'm using ATI/AMD. I tried installing their proprietery driver.
> > Resulted in my desktop being 640 x 480 :-( Then running the
> > display manager to change the resulution has the OK button off-screen.
> > AAAaaaargggg! Managed to hit it by pressing Tab the right number of
> > times.
> >
> > Well, the flicker is less, it's just so short now that it is hardly
> > noticeable. But the flicker is still there.
> >
> > --
> > Sorry, no fortune today.
> >
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>
> The flickering seems to be not just Ubuntu problem. I am running Gentoo
> and can observe it here. As a terminal I use uxterm (version 279).

Could it be a problem with Gnome desktop? I should try out xfce.

I deinstalled the ATI driver again. It was causing display errors for
images in Chrome. I suspect it also caused my focus-follows-mouse
setting to be lost. Seems like a bad driver.

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