Hide cursor while pacman is running

Use ASCII control codes to hide cursor at the pacman start and then
show the cursor when pacman finishes.

It helps to avoid annoying blinking when progress bars are re-drawn.

Cursor is reenabled if pacman expects user's input.

Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/pacman/pacman.c b/src/pacman/pacman.c
index d58c428a..fefd3fa4 100644
--- a/src/pacman/pacman.c
+++ b/src/pacman/pacman.c
@@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ static void cleanup(int ret)
 
 	/* free memory */
 	FREELIST(pm_targets);
+	console_cursor_show();
 	exit(ret);
 }
 
@@ -1084,6 +1085,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	int ret = 0;
 	uid_t myuid = getuid();
 
+	console_cursor_hide();
 	install_segv_handler();
 
 	/* i18n init */