My solution of setting the caret/cursor appearance on Linux Mint 21 Xfce including blinking rate: In the "filetypes.common" file: ``` # Foreground color and appearance of the caret (the blinking or not blinking cursor/point) # NOTICE: only first and third argument is `caret=` is evaluated, so setting the background # color of the caret will be ignored. # Caret appearance: ;;false->beam/hair ;;true->block caret caret=#ff9;;false # Width of the cursor/caret/point->the with arrow/cursor keys movable (blinking or static) # part of the display area) # 0->invisible, 1..3->width in pixels (if you want 4 or more, make it a block caret) caret_width=3 ``` Using `~ $ xfce4-keyboard-settings` dialog box for setting the cursor blinking rate: ![xfce4-keyboard-settings»Keyboard»Behavior-Tab_keyRepeatDelaySpeed-cursorBlinkingDelay_oo0](https://github.com/geany/geany/assets/143121714/ff4600ea-355e-43c6-a257-b85a...)