stop the cursor blinking in xterm

Question

how can i stop the cursor from blinking in xterm? i have put the following into ~.Xresources:

xterm.vt100.blink: false

and run

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

but the cursor still blinks when i open xterm from the gnome activities panel. my xterm version is:

$ xterm -v
XTerm(278)

and clicking help > about shows details:

GNOME Terminal
3.4.1.1

thanks

Answer 1

For a real xterm, the .Xresources entry to stop blinking permanently is

XTerm.VT100.cursorBlink:        never

If you use false instead of never, the cursor will not blink in a shell, but it may still blink if you start an editor within the xterm.

Answer 2

i was actually not on an xterm - i was on gnome-terminal. beware that

echo $TERM
xterm

does not mean that you are actually on an xterm.

for gnome-terminal the solution is to do:

gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/cursor_blink_mode --type string off