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Text-cursor is barely visible

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Searched the issues page for similar reports
Read the relevant sections of the Spyder Troubleshooting Guide and followed its advice
Reproduced the issue after updating with conda update spyder (or pip, if not using Anaconda)
Tried basic troubleshooting (if a bug/error)
- Restarted Spyder
- Reset preferences with spyder --reset
- Reinstalled the latest version of Anaconda
- Tried the other applicable steps from the Troubleshooting Guide
Completed the Problem Description, Steps to Reproduce and Version sections below

Problem Description

The text-cursor is barely visible in Spyder Dark Theme since it is black with a grey lining. I can’t seem to find where to change the color of it.

I saw old issue that I was unable to open: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/451, I asked yesterday on SO as well: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52126942/changing-caret-text-cursor-color-in-spyder-dark-theme.

What steps reproduce the problem?

Change syntax coloring to Spyder Dark or any other theme with dark background
Open a file
Try to find the text-cursor

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I earlier used Sublime and never had this issue. Sublime text-cursor: sublime_cursor

Spyder text-cursor spyder_cursor

Versions

Spyder version: 3.3.1
Python version: 3.5
Qt version: 5.6.2
PyQt5 version: 5.6 on Darwin
Operating System name/version: Mac OS X

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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jnsebgosselincommented, Sep 26, 2018

@adityapatile Unfortunately, there is no way to change that in the preferences section. To fix this, we would have to override the default cursor provided by the OS.

@CorneelDragon Thanks for reporting back. This is much appreciated.

@ccordoba12 Is this something that you would like to fix on our end, even though the issue seems to have been fixed in the new Mac OS (Mojave) as reported by @CorneelDragon?

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CorneeldHcommented, Sep 2, 2018

Thanks for testing, I added the info.

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