xfce terminal cursor, can I leave the text colour unchanged?

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 09:58:26PM -0400, Igor Zakharov wrote:
> 04.06.2017, 08:52, "Chris Green" <cl at isbd.net>:
> > On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 08:34:04AM -0400, Igor Zakharov wrote:
> >>  04.06.2017, 06:10, "Chris Green" <cl at isbd.net>:
> >>  > I use a light background with black text in my xfce terminal.
> >>  >
> >>  > I have a blue block cursor and when it is over a character the
> >>  > character is white (presumably reverse of black), white characters
> >>  > don't show up well in the blue cursor. Is it possible to have a blue
> >>  > cursor with black text in it?
> >>
> >>  Hi Chris,
> >>
> >>  Thanks for pointing this out. I will add option to select cursor foreground
> >>  (text) color to preferences - but please note that it's only available
> >>  starting with vte 0.44.
> >>
> >>  BTW, I find I-shaped cursor very convenient, have you tried it?
> >
> > On my system the I cursor is almost invisible, I do have quite small
> > text and the I cursor is just too thin to be easily visible.
> 
> I've added the option in https://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/commit/?id=7a3d977c8d2a5d7d01a8db4885fbcc709da4c563 
> 
Thanks Igor, when is that likely to get into the xubuntu repositories?
Will it get into 17.10?

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Chris Green