I dislike I-beam cursors and miss the days of underline/blinking or block/blinking cursors. However, I know my preferred cursors exist with xterm in Linux. I'm not even close to being a programmer. So my question is how hard would it be to compile such cursors into existing software such as OpenOffice and Thunderbird? I suggested this as an enhancement to OpenOffice but the suggestion was greeted with deafening silence. I've noticed Emacs uses such cursors in X so I assume it's possible. I'm not expecting anyone to code this, but IF it's relatively simple would it be possible to use Emacs source code as an example and modify OpenOffice and Thunderbird for compilation? Perhaps it's something as simple as a start-up option.