RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Feb 3 15:27:18 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?
Is it possible to change the color too btw?
I can't stand the blinking cursor, especially the block cursor in
terminals. I've configured my xterms to show a colored cursor though,
so you can easily find it even though it doesn't blink.
cheers,
Gerd
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