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When COSMIC Terminal is on Light theme, vim cursor is barely visible (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by AbsolutePain@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hi Lemmy, does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

When COSMIC Terminal is on Light theme, vim's cursor is barely visible.

I've tried changing the cursor background color on Vim, as well as Vim's theme. But neither of those two options seems to make a difference.

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[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

COSMIC is early on enough that you'd probably be better off opening an issue on their GitHub, this is very likely a bug

[–] AbsolutePain@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Good idea. I'll probably give it a few hours to see if anyone else here has any ideas on how to make sure it's not on my end, then I'll open an issue.

[–] zstg@programming.dev 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Does COSMIC-term not support setting a custom cursor colour/style?

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

no you only have two options as of right now. dark or light. that's it.

COSMIC-Term also has very poor image support so using something like Yazi with it is a waste of time. I can see where they're going with the Terminal, it's not there yet though.

[–] zstg@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Agreed. I feel one can cut it some slack since it's still in beta.

[–] AbsolutePain@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

As far as I can tell, there is no option for that. I can't find the config file (does anyone know where it is?).

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

likely a bug or a "feature" they haven't let fully baked yet with a few other theme options on the DE. Could probably make an issue for it.

[–] AbsolutePain@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, that's a good guess, given that it's still early days for COSMIC. Will open an issue later today or tomorrow.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

See, you've made 2 mistakes, using vim, and using light mode.

/s

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

switch to lightmode in vim

[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

does changing to a different dark vim theme help?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Stop using light mode, heathen

[–] AbsolutePain@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

lol sometimes when I'm outside dark mode is not really legible bc my laptop screen is not that fancy

[–] eta@feddit.org 6 points 6 months ago

Well there is your problem. Why are you going outside?