RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default
Richard Hughes
hughsient at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 17:32:01 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?
Fine for me. As long as people have a way to turn it back on, it should
be good for most people. It's a horrendous amount of power to save.
Richard.
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