How to change text cursor color in Tkinter?

Question

I have a text widget with dark background and I can't see the cursor's position. Is there any way to change the (blinking) text cursor's color?

Lemonade

Answer 1

You can change the insertbackground option of the text widget to whatever you want.

Canyon

Answer 2

Option for text cursor color in Tk is -insertbackground.

textWidget.config(insertbackground=...)

Sashasashay

Is there any way to change the thickness of the cursor ? Just like the default cursor in Vim? – Heck

@Heck Yes: "insertwidth". – Banquet

Answer 3

For python version 3

import tkinter as tk

textfield = tk.Entry(root)
textfield.configure(bg="#1C6C0B", insertbackground='white')

Colonel