RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) forum at ru.bir.ru
Tue Feb 3 00:03:22 UTC 2009


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?
> 

Yes. I love blinking cursor. And it is a history now.
If there settings to enable it - why you can't disable it if you want?




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