Vscode: Certain cursor style stop blinking / animating after a while

[spywhere]

• VSCode Version: 1.11.1 (1.11.1) d9484d12b38879b7f4cdd1150efeb2fd2c1fbf39
• OS Version: macOS Sierra 10.12.4 (16E195)

Steps to Reproduce

• VSCode has run with --disable-extensions
• VSCode still has the following user's configurations applied

// Place your settings in this file to overwrite the default settings
{
    "editor.roundedSelection": false,
    "editor.scrollBeyondLastLine": false,
    "editor.hideCursorInOverviewRuler": true,
    "editor.renderWhitespace": "all",
    "editor.rulers": [80],
    "editor.cursorBlinking": "expand",
    "editor.emptySelectionClipboard": false,
    "editor.renderLineHighlight": "gutter",
    "editor.minimap.enabled": false,
    "editor.minimap.renderCharacters": false,

    "workbench.activityBar.visible": false,
    "workbench.iconTheme": "vs-nomo-dark",

    "files.insertFinalNewline": true,

    "explorer.openEditors.visible": 0,

    "terminal.external.osxExec": "iTerm.app",
    "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "Meslo LG S for Powerline",
    "terminal.integrated.fontSize": 10,

    "window.reopenFolders": "all",

    "python.linting.pylintEnabled": false,
    "python.linting.pep8Enabled": true,

    "extensions.autoUpdate": true,
    "diffEditor.renderSideBySide": false,
    "files.exclude": {
        "**/.git": true,
        "**/.svn": true,
        "**/.hg": true,
        "**/.DS_Store": true,
        "**/__pycache__/**": true
    },
    "window.zoomLevel": 0
}

[alexdima]

For certain cursor blinking styles (e.g. "editor.cursorBlinking": "expand") the cursor stops blinking after 10s of idle time. This is done to reduce CPU usage when VS Code is idle (i.e. increase battery life). Do you find this very annoying / a deal breaker ?

[spywhere]

It's not a big deal but it quite annoying as I didn't expect cursor to be that way. If there's a way to configure the idle time before it stop blinking, that'd be a good option for me (at least I could give them more time before stop blinking).

[ajitid]

for any "editor.cursorBlinking" setting except the default "blink" the cursor stops blinking. It happens in Windows 10 too!

[ScottRudiger]

For your consideration in prioritizing, I was also surprised to see the cursor stop blinking after such a short period. I downloaded VS Code today (coming from Sublime Text) and would appreciate a setting to control the cursor blinking timeout.

[notAlaanor]

I agree, if we could have an option to change this, or completely disable it, it would be appreciated.

[Lisoph]

I very much want an option to disable the timeout as well. The cursor suddenly stopping its animation is irritating because it makes me think that the vscode window has lost focus.

[carmenbianca]

I came across this issue because of opposite behaviour: I expect "blink" to stop blinking after a certain while to preserve CPU usage.

[jmereardon17]

Any updates on this guys?

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[foguel]

It is very annoying, that the cursor is not blinking in VSCode after 10 sec!!

[Ernest314]

Not sure why this is marked as out-of-scope: this is clearly part of VS Code's functionality (seeing as it was originally implemented as an unlimited animation), there are people who would like the feature (both ways--always on/off), and there is no other way to do it with extensions.