RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Jan 30 06:09:14 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 05:31 +0000, 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?

I set this myself everywhere I can, so I would really like to see this
the default.

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Jesse Keating
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