Is there any way to have a non-blinking cursor in Writer?
This depends on your OS. If you set your system settings accordingly, Writer will use that settings. You can disable cursor blinking in Windows 7 using the keyboard properties, by setting the cursor blinking rate to zero. See also http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-keyboard-settings
If you’re not using Win 7, please add the OS to your question.
On KDE system, I was able to stop cursor blinking using qtconfig: Interfaces → Flash time → scroll down til you hit No blinking. I did it as a user and as a root (not sure which is sufficient).
For a gnome desktop, there’s an advice:
$ gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/interface/cursor_blink --type boolean False
$ gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/cursor_blink --type boolean False
$ gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/cursor_blink_mode --type string offThe qtconfig tool should only be writing to ~/.qt/ so I would think user privileges are sufficient. Should be a similar situation for gconftool. Thanks for this advice.
On Debian LibreOffice disregards all system settings: Blinking cursor set to false in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 or gtk3 settings.ini. Desktop wide setting for gnome3 set via gsettings as well. No way to disable the cursor. (Bug?)
@snop – I’m not sure if that’s a bug, but feel free to toss one in the bugtracker and the QA team will be happy to help you triage the problem one way or the other.