RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Andrew Haley]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:33:12PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 
>> TBH until recently I thought this problem had gone away. Shortly after
>> powertop came out the blinking cursor issue was identified as an issue
>> and I saw patches flying around to fix the problems. It wasn't until I
>> noticed OLPC was patching some part of the the gnome stack to fix the
>> issue that I realised that it was still an issue. Surely it can be
>> made some sort of "Cursor Blink" config option that is disabled by
>> default but allow the people that want blinking to enable it
>> relatively simply.
> 
> It is - System/Preferences/Hardware(?)/Keyboard(!)/General/ . FWIW:

Hardware/Keyboard?  Keyboard!  No wonder I couldn't find it.  :-(

Andrew.