RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 20:36 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:29 PM, seth vidal  wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 03:03 +0300, Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus)
> > wrote:
> >> 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?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yes. I love blinking cursor. And it is a history now.
> >> If there settings to enable it - why you can't disable it if you want?
> >
> > the point is most people won't care enough either way. And if we disable
> > it then we save power on each machine.
> >
> > More power saved == less energy used == yay for the world.
> >
> > +1 to disabling it.
> >
> 
> A quick calculation showed me that,
> assuming there are 10 million Fedora computers in the world, running 7/24,
> saving 2W per computers saves about 1 relatively large size tree (40
> tons) every 2.3 days.
> Just for the record.
> 

Seems like a winner to me.

thanks,
-sv