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Re: RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default
- From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer gmail com>
- To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
- Subject: Re: RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:27:08 -0500
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:21:47AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>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?
>>
>
>A slightly less drastical measure would be to set the
>gtk-cursor-blink-timeout setting to some reasonable value of seconds:
That works for Gnome, but what about vttys and other desktop environments?
I'm not saying to not use the gtk thing, I'm just wondering if there is a
toggle that would catch it globally somewhere.
josh
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