RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 15:52 +0000, Bill Crawford wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 February 2009 11:44:42 Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> > Blinking things tend to draw attention, and in the case of Blinky the
> > Cursor it's drawing your attention to the fact that there is nothing at
> > all to attend to. It can also cause seizures for people with epilepsy or
> > other disorders.
> >
> > Now, somebody please tell me: what is the grande justification of
> > consuming a few extra wats per every computer in the world to attempt to
> > draw the users attention to exactly nothing, despite being known to cause
> > health issues to some people while doing so? And "it's always done that"
> > is not an answer.
> 
> Where the input location is in a large text document or piece of code I've just 
> opened up in a 211x72 xterm? If (for some reason) it's not in the middle of the 
> screen, it can be hard to spot; I'd like for it to blink a few times when I 
> first give the xterm focus (yes, it's more or less full screen, and yes, I have 
> multiple screens, so I've completely lost track of where in the window I was 
> when I turn back to it).

In these situations for me, the blinking of the cursor was no help in
finding it.  Moving the cursor up or down via arrow keys was what led me
to find it.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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