How do I turn off the blinking cursor/caret in the Arduino IDE? I just purchased a RedBoard, knowing that it would work on Linux, and knowing that it could allow me to easily interface with some electronics project. I am aware of the ino command line tool but I wanted to try interfacing with my board using the Arduino IDE because the latter seems to be somewhat standard. However, when I open the IDE I see a blinking cursor and for whatever reason I can't deal with this. How do I turn off the blinking cursor in the IDE?

I've managed to fix the blinking cursor problem in Firefox, GNOME, KDE, and my terminal... just not sure what to do with Java applications like Arduino IDE.
Note: does not work with version 1.6.11. Works with 1.0.6


Open the Arduino IDE
Go to File 
Then go to Preferences
At the bottom of the page is the file location you can enter to set additional preferences
Exit the Arduino IDE
Go to the preferences file location then set editor.caret.blink=false
Then save
Then restart the IDE and the caret will not flash