You can control how the cursor appears when it blinks off by setting
the variable @code{blink-cursor-alist}.
+@vindex visible-cursor
+ Some text terminals offer two different cursors: the normal cursor
+and the very visible cursor, where the latter may be e.g. bigger or
+blinking. By default Emacs uses the very visible cursor. Setting the
+variable @code{visible-cursor} to @code{nil} makes it use the
+normal cursor.
+
@cindex cursor in non-selected windows
@vindex cursor-in-non-selected-windows
Normally, the cursor appears in non-selected windows in the ``off''