How to restore cursor style on exit?

[lost22git]

My terminal cursor style is line, and it cannot restore it after quitting yazi (yazi curosr style is block)

[doorbuster]

I've noticed that happens in konsole. When I quit yazi, the cursor is block, even though it was line before yazi. This doesn't happen in kitty. I have no solution, but a quick reset command brings it back.

[lost22git]

I do a fast check, it only happens in my windows terminal, and alacritty, wezterm works fine.

[sxyazi]

Yazi uses DECSET and DECRQM to request the terminal's cursor shape and blink status, so it can restore them when exiting:

yazi/yazi-fm/src/term.rs

Lines 31 to 33 in 9483798

	Print(tcsi("\x1b[?12$p")), // Request cursor blink status (DECSET)
	Print(tcsi("\x1bP$q q\x1b\\")), // Request cursor shape (DECRQM)
	Print(tcsi("\x1b[?u\x1b[c")), // Request keyboard enhancement flags (CSI u)

Unfortunately, some terminals don't support these requests, and a simple solution is to reset the cursor when exiting Yazi - if you're using the shell wrapper, you can add:

function y() {
	local tmp="$(mktemp -t "yazi-cwd.XXXXXX")"
	yazi "$@" --cwd-file="$tmp"
+	echo -e -n "\x1b[\x36 q" # change cursor to steady bar
	if cwd="$(cat -- "$tmp")" && [ -n "$cwd" ] && [ "$cwd" != "$PWD" ]; then
		builtin cd -- "$cwd"
	fi
	rm -f -- "$tmp"
}

into it to achieve this. See more available sequences at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4416909/anyway-change-the-cursor-vertical-line-instead-of-a-box

[doorbuster]

Works great, thanks. I hadn't noticed that the shell wrapper code (or at least the command) had changed.

[YHYJ]

Modify the function to allow run yazi, not y

function yazi() {
    local tmp="$(mktemp -t "yazi-cwd.XXXXXX")"
    /usr/bin/yazi "$@" --cwd-file="$tmp"
    echo -e -n "\x1b[\x36 q" # change cursor to steady bar
    if cwd="$(cat -- "$tmp")" && [ -n "$cwd" ] && [ "$cwd" != "$PWD" ]; then
        builtin cd -- "$cwd"
    fi
    rm -f -- "$tmp"
}

[lost22git]

For powershell users, paste the below funcion to your $PROFILE file.

enum CursorStyle
{
  block_blink = 1
  block = 2
  underline_blink = 3
  underline = 4
  bar_blink = 5
  bar = 6
}

<#
  .SYNOPSIS
  set cursor style
#>
function Set-CursorStyle
{
  param (
    # style
    [Parameter(Mandatory)]
    [CursorStyle]$Style
  )
  
  Write-Output "`e[$([int]$Style) q"
}

and you can set your cursor style after exiting yazi.

Set-CursorStyle -Style bar