RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:07:41PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> But when it's idle, you are in screensaver or blank screen with no
> cursor anyway. The "wins" are massively overhyped, and the loss is users
> wondering where the damn cursor is (there are good reasons it was made
> to blink in the first place)

We're talking about different orders of time. The screen is idle when 
nothing is being drawn to it - that is, the screen will typically be 
idle the vast majority of the time even if the session is active.

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