RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Fri Jan 30 05:33:09 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?

Since GTK+ already supports it, can we just make the timeout be 30s?

behdad




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