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How can I set the caret style in Geany editor to look bold, something similar to the terminal caret style or to enhance its observability. Any tweaks available. Thanks for any suggestion as the default look is difficult to point out quickly due to its very thin look.

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There is a bug-report/request dealing with this, which apparently has not been addressed: #527 Caret options :

As of 0.20, Geany's caret (AKA cursor) is drawn as a 1-pixel vertical bar in insert mode, and as a 2-pixel horizontal bar in overwrite mode, and there's an option to decide whether it blinks or not.

While this makes sense, I would prefer to be able to choose what kind of cursor (horizontal, vertical or block) shows in every mode and to decide how fast the cursor blinks. (Due to nostalgia, I prefer horizontal cursors for inserting, and block cursors for replacing, and I prefer a faster blinking cursor which is more easily visible and somehow encourages working faster.)

In the followup comments, a workaround is suggested:

# colour of the caret(the blinking cursor), only first and third argument is interpreted
# set the third argument to true to change the caret into a block caret
caret=caret

as well as a followup request to the Scintilla developers, which has had no action.

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  • In my `~/.config/geany/filedefs/filetypes.common`, I have `caret_width=3` which is the maximum width permissible. Geany 1.26. In my gtk2 theme's gtkrc, I set `GtkWidget::cursor-color = "red"`. – DK Bose Feb 06 '16 at 17:49
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I changed that via Tools > Configuration Files > filetypes.common and then restarted Geany but nothing changed.

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