Re: Two crippling visual bugs about pgAdmin 4: flashing white backgrounds and blinking carets. - Mailing list pgadmin-support

Thank you! Although I hope that they will understand what I meant (and how crippling they are to me) since you shortened them so much. I fear that these issues will be ignored or maybe they'll ask for "more details".

On Friday, May 2nd, 2025 at 5:18 AM, Aditya Toshniwal <aditya.toshniwal@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

Hi,

I've raised below tickets for you, please check:

https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8711

https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8712

On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM mullvadisen <mullvadisen@proton.me> wrote:

Like I said, they don't allow registration for me. It doesn't matter how many times I try (and I have sure tried, over and over). It's the same for every major service for the last 10-15 years now. Feel free to post it on my behalf.

On Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 at 10:48 AM, Aditya Toshniwal <aditya.toshniwal@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM mullvadisen <mullvadisen@proton.me> wrote:

I'm using pgAdmin 4 on Linux (X11, Plasma, desktop mode, Debian, obtained from pgAdmin's custom APT repository). Naturally, because I value my eyesight and sanity, I use the dark mode. Recently, it has started doing something horrible:

1. Every time you open any new "view" inside the application, it flashes the screen bright white before rendering the new page. For example if you click the "Query Tool" button. It happens every single time, and was sadly not fixed in 9.3 which was just released and which I was hopeful for. This drives me insane and it didn't use to happen.

You can create a bug on github.

2. The program doesn't respect my system settings to not blink the caret in text inputs. It keeps blinking even though I've set it to not blink (be fixed as visible) in the KDE settings. This "animation" makes it impossible for me to use the program; I'm forced to write any query etc. in a separate Kate text document (where the caret doesn't blink) and then paste it into pgAdmin 4, because having the pgAdmin 4 window up and working in it becomes impossible due to this "Caret from Hell".

You can create a feature request on github.

I've looked all over the GUI settings and searched online for some hidden config option to turn this infernal blinking off, but there is just nothing (that I can find after spending countless hours). Please enable this somehow so that people whose brains will never be compatible with stuff moving around or animating on the screen can also use this crucial software. It has overall massively improved in recent years, but these two things sadly really drag it down again.

PS: I'm aware that pgAdmin 4 uses Chromium which uses some custom rendering engine from Google, which would maybe explain why it doesn't care about any of my system settings, but nevertheless they cannot have been sadistic enough to *hardcode* the cursor to blink? Words cannot describe how distracting and stressful that is.

PS 2: I'm sending this to this e-mail list because you use Github for filing "Issues", and Github doesn't allow account registration ever since they sold out to Microsoft. (No, I'm not making that up. It's been the same every single time I've tried over the years. It consistently refuses, like all major websites today.)

I don't think that is the case, people have created so many Github accounts after that (including me). Even then if you're not able to create one then let us know, we'll create the bug on your behalf.

I'm not even sure I'll be able to respond to anything here. I might have to passively read any responses through the web archive depending on how many further hurdles there will be to actually posting/sending this...

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Thanks,

Aditya Toshniwal

pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Staff SDE II | enterprisedb.com

"Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"

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Thanks,

Aditya Toshniwal

pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Staff SDE II | enterprisedb.com

"Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"