RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:33:12PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:

> TBH until recently I thought this problem had gone away. Shortly after
> powertop came out the blinking cursor issue was identified as an issue
> and I saw patches flying around to fix the problems. It wasn't until I
> noticed OLPC was patching some part of the the gnome stack to fix the
> issue that I realised that it was still an issue. Surely it can be
> made some sort of "Cursor Blink" config option that is disabled by
> default but allow the people that want blinking to enable it
> relatively simply.

It is - System/Preferences/Hardware(?)/Keyboard(!)/General/ . FWIW:

* Tue Feb 3  2009 Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com> - 2.24.1-9
- Default to a non-blinking cursor

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