How to customize Nano Editor?

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Hello there!

That might be true, however, it could also just be coincidence IMHO. Some implementations might have been made that aren’t completely understandable with current view of some people, e.g.:

But I would definitely agree with you that installing unnecessary / untrusted apps into dom0 poses an unnecessary risk! I wouldn’t install any other text editors than already preinstalled in dom0.

Are you sure that you want these settings applied in dom0? You shouldn’t be doing there all to much anyway.

For your cursor problem:
I would suggest, this is very likely an xfce4-terminal setting, rather than nano.
Actually, stopping the cursor seems to be literally a “power saving” feature…
So here the workaround (adapted from here):

  1. enter xfce4-settings-editor in the appvm (or in dom0 i guess)
  2. select “xsettings” on the left side
  3. click on “add” on the lower part
  4. enter as property “/Gtk/CursorBlinkTimeout”
  5. set the Type to “Int”
  6. enter as Value a large number, but less than 2 billion
  7. click save
  8. enjoy your cursor:)

But again, please think well if you want to make such configs in dom0 at all.

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