Cursor blinking on active gemini-cli instance

[yannack]

What would you like to be added?

When using multiple instances of Gemini CLI in tmux panes, I cannot know which one is active because the cursor doesn't have any distinctive feature, whether the pane is active or not. Terminal (and terminal applications, e.g., vim) usually have the following behavior:

• if application is focused (active tmux pane): cursor is blinking
• if application is unfocused (unselected pane): cursor is not shown

Current behavior: whether focused or not, gemini CLI shows a solid cursor.

Why is this needed?

It makes using gemini CLI in parallel very error prone, I sometimes hit escape on the wrong terminal, or accept the wrong prompt.

Additional context

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[jacob314]

The input prompt does change color depending on whether the terminal is active and the cursor is hidden when the terminal is not active. we don't yet have a blinking cursor in gemini cli but could add that.

[yannack]

I don't observe color changing or cursor hiding in tmux with multiple panes.