how to hide cursor in gtk text entry

jyoti · **Joined:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:14 am **Posts:** 39

Wolfgang · **Joined:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:39 am **Posts:** 120

I don't know any way to do it exactly so, but may be you should use GtkLabel?

ZuLuuuuuu · **Posted:** Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:50 pm

What do you want to do exactly? Do you want not to show the cursor but other properties to remain? Or do you want to make it not editable. If latter, you can use gtk_editable_set_editable ():

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stab ... t-editable

zerohour · **Posted:** Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:23 pm

I know this is a pretty old post but there's not enough information out there about GTK+3 anyway. Setting gtk_editable_set_editable doesn't hide the cursor. At least not in GtkEntry. If you want to hide it you can just change it to the background color. Using CSS with Gtk-3.2.0 you use -GtkWidget-cursor-color like this:

Code:

/*  Compile With:    gcc -Wall -o cursor `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0` cursor.c */

#include <gtk/gtk.h> 

int main (int argc, char* argv[])
{
  GtkWidget *window;
  GtkWidget *tview;
  GtkTextBuffer *tbuf;
  GtkCssProvider *provider; // for css
  GdkDisplay *display;      // for css
  GdkScreen *screen;        // for css

  gtk_init(&argc, &argv);

/*-------------  CSS  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
  provider = gtk_css_provider_new ();
  gtk_css_provider_load_from_data (provider,
                                   "GtkTextView {color: blue; font: Serif 38; background-color: yellow; -GtkWidget-cursor-color: red}",-1,NULL); 

  display = gdk_display_get_default ();
  screen = gdk_display_get_default_screen (display);
  gtk_style_context_add_provider_for_screen (screen,
                                             GTK_STYLE_PROVIDER (provider),
                                             GTK_STYLE_PROVIDER_PRIORITY_APPLICATION);
  g_object_unref (provider);
/*-------------  CSS  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

  window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
  gtk_window_set_default_size(GTK_WINDOW(window), 500, 250);
  g_signal_connect_swapped(G_OBJECT(window), "destroy",
      G_CALLBACK(gtk_main_quit), NULL);

   tbuf = gtk_text_buffer_new(NULL);
   tview = gtk_text_view_new_with_buffer (tbuf);
   gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), tview);

  gtk_widget_show_all(window);
  gtk_main();
  return 0;
}

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