RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:29 PM, seth vidal  wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 03:03 +0300, Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus)
> 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?
>> >
>>
>> Yes. I love blinking cursor. And it is a history now.
>> If there settings to enable it - why you can't disable it if you want?
>
> the point is most people won't care enough either way. And if we disable
> it then we save power on each machine.
>
> More power saved == less energy used == yay for the world.
>
> +1 to disabling it.
>

A quick calculation showed me that,
assuming there are 10 million Fedora computers in the world, running 7/24,
saving 2W per computers saves about 1 relatively large size tree (40
tons) every 2.3 days.
Just for the record.

Orcan