Can someone explain why the cursor does not change in insert mode or visual mode once it is set?

[HeavenTao]

On my computer, Contour is the most performance-oriented terminal emulator. However, it has one drawback, and I have also noticed in the configuration file that you can currently only set the cursor style but not the insert mode or visual mode. Can you explain why?
Thanks！🙏

[uspasojevic96]

This is a nice feature request, so you want something to how NVim does things where you can differentiate between modes based on cursor style?

[christianparpart]

@HeavenTao Hey, many thanks for your interest. This is actually a great idea. Out of curiosity, are you currently on master branch (manually build / tarballs from CI) or on latest release?

If I am not misunderstanding this, that should be a great thing to implement that certainly won't take long to land on master branch :)

[christianparpart]

Okay, I am sorry for the confusion, @HeavenTao. I have obviously typed too fast, an hour ago. I've checked the code now, and despite having this functionality already, I've fixed a bug along the way wrt that configuration.

Keep watching PR #1106 to be merged and then maybe update to latest master branch (?).

Configuration shall work as follows:

# ...

profiles:
    your_profile:
        cursor:
            # that's basically the cursor config for insert input mode
            shape: "bar"
            blinking: false
            blinking_interval: 500
        normal_mode:
            cursor:
                shape: block
                blinking: false
                blinking_interval: 500
        visual_mode:
            cursor:
                shape: rectangle
                blinking: false
                blinking_interval: 500

That's what I have locally configured, and with the above PR also works reliably. :)

For possible values for shape, have a look at the default configuration for contour.yml (also here: https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour/blob/master/src/contour/contour.yml)

I hope this helps.

[HeavenTao]

Thank you very much. I tried to figure out how to compile it, but it was still too complicated for me. However, I tried using the new version, and it worked fine.

[Yaraslaut]

"> Thank you very much. I tried to figure out how to compile it, but it was still too complicated for me. However, I tried using the new version, and it worked fine.

Great to hear that it works now.
Maybe you can elaborate a bit more about you attempt to compile contour from the source, did you follow "Installing from source" section in the readme?

[HeavenTao]

I followed the "Install from source" steps in the readme, and when I ran the compilation command,
cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:\vcpkg\scripts\buildsystems\vcpkg.cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\Qt\6.5.0\msvc2019_64\lib\cmake
I got a Qt error. Sorry, I know nothing about Qt, and it's quite time consuming to reproduce the environment now, so I gave up on compiling it myself.

[christianparpart]

@HeavenTao big big sorry for the late response. You can simply grab a binary from the release page, or go with the Flatpak version on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/org.contourterminal.Contour :)

[HeavenTao]

Thank you for the reminder. I will try it later.