RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Peter Robinson]

> right now on my F10 system
>
> xterm defaults to no blink
> konsole defaults to no blink
> aterm defaults to no blink
> Eterm defaults to no blink
> rxvt defaults to no blink

I think these were only turned off as part of the powertop craze of a
year or two ago.

> gnome-terminal defaults to blink

I think this is actually a gtk option.

> I do not think traditional terminal operation makes a strong argument
> in the scope of this discussion in the light of the fact that other
> terminal emulators with codebase lifetimes as long or longer than
> gnome-terminal/libvte already default to no blink in F10.
>
> If anything.. gnome-terminal is the odd man out and there is an
> argument to be made to bring it into line with the common default
> behaviour of other virtual terminals.

traditionally I think they did blink, but apparently most of the users
of those don't care or know how to change the default.

Peter