Re: RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel redhat com>]

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