Inconsistent cursor type during insert mode

[SarthakAdhikari]

First of all, thank you for the package. It has been a great help for transitioning to spacemacs.

Everything works great except for the fact that the cursor is sometimes inconsistent during insert-mode.

Expected Behaviour

• During command mode, the cursor color is pink and the cursor type is a box.
• During insert mode, the cursor color is blue and the cursor type is a bar.

What is happening

• During command mode, the cursor color is pink and the cursor type is a box.(this is as expected)
• During insert mode, the cursor color is blue but the cursor type is still a box.

Examples
Problem during autocomplete
Problem inside ansi-term

Further details
This causes minor annoyances that adds up quickly. I have found that the problem persists mostly on two occasions.

1. When I am inside the ansi-term
2. When company autocomplete box pops up

This problem only persists on the autocomplete if I use the company-posframe package(which I am forced to use because if I don't, my autocomplete looks like this. It works fine if I don't use company-posframe so is this a problem with company-posframe?

System details:

I am using the latest commit of develop branch of spacemacs(8b888c6a082).

In GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20)
of 2020-08-28 built on sarthakpc
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12008000
System Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Configured using:
'configure --with-modules'

[gcentauri]

@SarthakAdhikari - thank you for the detailed report!

i'm glad the layer could help you integrate with spacemacs. i think this issue might be more related to xah-fly-keys itself than the layer, but i will find some time to look into it. my guess is that certain modes automatically switch the user into insert mode without calling the hooks for changing the cursor. hopefully we can get this sorted out soon!