
Change Cursor of Mac Terminal
If you want to change the cursor type of Mac Terminal (Zsh Shell by Default of macOS Big Sur), you can do that by following the below steps,
- Open Terminal Application, you can do that by tying Terminal in Spotlight search, or by going to \Applications and clicking on Terminal App icon,
- Now click on the Terminal Menu option and select Preferences...,
- An Window should open up, click on Profiles tab,
- Under the Profiles tab, you would see Curor section at the bottom,
- You can chose from the other options as below,
- _ Underscore
- | Vertical
- Block (by default selected)
- Once you choose any one of the options by selecting the radio button, close the Preferences tab,
- Now once you return back to the Terminal you would see that the cursor have changed.

macOS Terminal Preferences Menu

Choose from different cursor types in Terminal Settings

Choose from different cursor types in Terminal Settings
You can also make the cursor to blink by selecting the blink checkbox you would see under Cursor section, by default the blink option is disabled.
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