RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Basil Mohamed Gohar]

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 00:33 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod 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?
> 
> Since GTK+ already supports it, can we just make the timeout be 30s?
> 
> behdad
> 

Something along these lines would be awesome.  It would work for
whenever you're working, and would disappear when you're not actively
using the computer.  Yes, that's simplistic, but it covers a lot of
complaints.  The specific number, I don't know.

How about the Gnome developers?  What do you guys think?  (I know Behdad
is one, but I don't know the rest).  If this becomes a Gnome default,
the power savings, hopefully, will filter to more systems than just
Fedora.  If it was just Ubuntu, this could almost double (or more than
double?) the savings from just Fedora.
 
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Basil Mohamed Gohar
abu_hurayrah at hidayahonline.org
www.basilgohar.com
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