Cursor doesnt change about kitty HOT 6 CLOSED

Works fine for me. I suggest you follow the issue tmeplate provide the
requested information, then you might get more asistance.

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kitty 0.31.0 created by Kovid Goyal
Linux hax 6.7.6-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:31:48 +0000 x86_64
Arch Linux 6.7.6-arch1-1 (/dev/tty)

Running under: X11
Frozen: False
Paths:
kitty: /usr/bin/kitty
base dir: /usr/lib/kitty
extensions dir: /usr/lib/kitty/kitty
system shell: /sbin/zsh
Loaded config files:
/home/pal/.config/kitty/kitty.conf

Config options different from defaults:
confirm_os_window_close 0
cursor_shape 3
enable_audio_bell False
font_family CommitMonoNerdFont
font_size 18.0
shell_integration frozenset({'disabled'})
Colors:
background #0e1419
color1 #ff3333
color10 #e9fe83
color11 #fff778
color12 #68d4ff
color13 #ffa3aa
color14 #c7fffc
color2 #b8cc52
color3 #e6c446
color4 #36a3d9
color5 #f07078
color6 #95e5cb
color7 #ffffff
color8 #323232
color9 #ff6565
cursor #87ff87
foreground #e5e1cf
selection_background #243340
selection_foreground #0e1419

Important environment variables seen by the kitty process:
PATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl
LANG C.UTF-8
EDITOR nvim
SHELL /sbin/zsh
DISPLAY :0
USER pal
XDG_SEAT seat0
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP xmonad
XDG_SESSION_TYPE x11
XDG_SESSION_CLASS user
XDG_VTNR 2
XDG_SESSION_ID 1
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR /run/user/1000
XDG_DATA_DIRS /home/pal/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share

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Works fine for me with:
kitty --config=NONE -o shell_integration=no-cursor -o cursor_shape=underline -o shell=cat
and also with:
kitty --config=NONE -o shell_integration=no-cursor -o cursor_shape=underline -o shell=zsh

If its not working for you with the latter, it means something in your
zshrc is setting the cursor shape. As noted in the docs for the
cursor_shape option it is applied only when the program running in the
terminal doesnt set a cursor shape

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Funny thing is your debug code also doesnt work for me. It starts the console with normal cursor and not underline. What the hell. My .zshrc has only this:

# Lines configured by zsh-newuser-install
HISTFILE=~/.histfile
HISTSIZE=1000
SAVEHIST=1000
setopt EXTENDED_HISTORY
bindkey -v
# End of lines configured by zsh-newuser-install
# The following lines were added by compinstall
zstyle :compinstall filename '/home/pal/.zshrc'

autoload -Uz compinit
compinit
# End of lines added by compinstall

export EDITOR=nvim
export BROWseR="brave"
PROMPT='%B%F{120}%~ >%f%b '
RPROMPT='%F{008}%T%f'

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There is a whole bunch of files involved in zsh startup not just zshrc. Read man zsh for details.

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I dont have .zshenv, .zprofile, .zlogin or .zlogout. Neither in home dir nor in /etc/

Edit 1: The cmd kitty -o shell_integration=no-cursor -o cursor_shape=underline -o shell=bash works. When I change the shell to zsh, it doesnt. It seems it is not the config but somehow the shell. But I dont know what forces the shell to override kitty cursor?

Edit 2: When I delete the .zshrc, it also works. But when I remove everything in the .zshrc, so that it is empty, it doesnt work lol. Im confused.

Edit 3: I just installed alacritty, a different terminal ,and wrote cursor: style: Underline into the alacritty.yml config, when I start alacritty it works. And with echo $SHELL it gives me /sbin/zsh. So the problem is definitely kitty.

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