Remove white blinking cursor for only one terminal - bash Script

Question

Lately I have been researching for a way that I can create a fixed terminal that opens up at boot and that will be located in a specific x + y position and with a fixed size. By digging around the forum I found two methods of achieving this: One was explained in this forum, which works with a bash Script that must be run at startup-applications settings.

My idea was to add neofetch in that terminal and I have Zero to no-knowledge about scrip files and commands so I wasn't able that every time that the terminal was open neofetch would start up. I tried to modify the script but had no success.

THE SCRIPT

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import subprocess
import time
import sys

app = sys.argv[1]

get = lambda x: subprocess.check_output(["/bin/bash", "-c", x]).decode("utf-8")
ws1 = get("wmctrl -lp"); t = 0
subprocess.Popen(["/bin/bash", "-c", app])

while t < 30:      
    ws2 = [w.split()[0:3] for w in get("wmctrl -lp").splitlines() if not w in ws1]
    procs = [[(p, w[0]) for p in get("ps -e ww").splitlines() \
              if app in p and w[2] in p] for w in ws2]
    if len(procs) > 0:
        w_id = procs[0][0][1]
        cmd1 = "wmctrl -ir "+w_id+" -b remove,maximized_horz"
        cmd2 = "wmctrl -ir "+w_id+" -b remove,maximized_vert"
        cmd3 = "xdotool windowsize --sync "+procs[0][0][1]+" "+sys.argv[4]+"% "+sys.argv[5]+"%"
        cmd4 = "xdotool windowmove "+procs[0][0][1]+" "+sys.argv[2]+" "+sys.argv[3]
        for cmd in [cmd1, cmd2, cmd3, cmd4]:   
            subprocess.call(["/bin/bash", "-c", cmd])
        break
    time.sleep(0.5)
    t = t+1

Code provided by: Jacob Vlijm

The second option I had, which works in a way was to use the following command:

gnome-terminal --geometry 82x26+1190+32 -- bash -c "neofetch; read"

My setup with neofetch

A added the read command at the end of the bash so the "bash input" would not appear, But I am trying to hide the white blinking cursor as an idea I was trying to make it so the neofetch program would be in a pause state so it would not end unless something. If the script ends then this white cursor will appear and I am so picky and I hate that. I don't want to remove the white blinking cursor entirely but just for that terminal. IS there a way to hide that cursor? Or is there a way I can modify the neofetch .conf settings so I can create a pause command?

Thanks! Nick

Answer 1

In gnome-terminal, you should be able to set cvvis (cursor visible) and civis (cursor invisible).

$ tput civis ## turn cursor off
$ tput cvvis ## turn curson on