RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 03:55:23PM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> 
> > In this case, "blinking cursor" is a requirement of some users, not an
> > internal detail of the implementation that can be changed at will if it
> > improves efficiency.
> 
> A few, maybe, but in general this is quite incredible.  The idea that
> we should be wasting a fractional percentage of the total power budget
> on something so pointless is utterly absurd.

  Uhm, sorry? The talk was of about 1-2W. Given that my Thinkpad T400
could go to 10,3W when idle, we are talking about serious percentage
of power saved. This means longer on-battery work and longer battery
lifetime (and not some fscking hipothetical trees saved).

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