Ubuntu – How to change the Gedit keyboard cursor / caret to a block instead of a bar

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The single-pixel-width cursor / caret in Gedit (and other text editor boxes in Ubuntu) is pretty thin and hard to see:

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I like the block cursor used in the standard terminal, however:

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Is there a way to adjust the Gedit typing cursor to be a thicker line, or a block, or a horizontal underbar, or something easier to see? I would like to do this while still maintaining the standard "insert text here" behavior of the bar; I do not want to overwrite text.

(I believe both "cursor" and "caret" are sometimes used to refer to the text insertion point.)

Best Answer

Short answer press Insert key on your keyboard.

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