RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:33:12PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >> > There's a reason it's been like this in like ... forever.
> >> > Doesn't it strike you as strange to change one of the
> >> > longest established conventions on a whim?!?
> >>
> >> Tradition is not an argument in fedora.
> >
> > Neither seems to be reason.
> 
> TBH until recently I thought this problem had gone away. Shortly after
> powertop came out the blinking cursor issue was identified as an issue
> and I saw patches flying around to fix the problems. It wasn't until I
> noticed OLPC was patching some part of the the gnome stack to fix the
> issue that I realised that it was still an issue. Surely it can be
> made some sort of "Cursor Blink" config option that is disabled by
> default but allow the people that want blinking to enable it
> relatively simply.

There already is -- System > Prefs > Hardware > Keyboard

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