On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 05:31 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
The blinking cursor causes the processor and GPU to be woken up
frequently. On one of my test systems, this causes somewhere in the
region of 2 Watts of extra power consumption. I'd like to change the
default for this to false. Anyone have any objections?
A slightly less drastical measure would be to set the
gtk-cursor-blink-timeout setting to some reasonable value of seconds:
/**
* GtkSettings:gtk-cursor-blink-timeout:
*
* Time after which the cursor stops blinking, in seconds.
* The timer is reset after each user interaction.
*
* Setting this to zero has the same effect as setting
* #GtkSettings:gtk-cursor-blink to %FALSE.
*
* Since: 2.12
*/