RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

Fri Jan 30 10:00:15 UTC 2009

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.

How about the fading glow flashy thing the gnome panel window switcher
does when a window wants attention? That's even worse.

> 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?

Please do.
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