On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:21:47AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: >>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. 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? >>> >> >>A slightly less drastical measure would be to set the >>gtk-cursor-blink-timeout setting to some reasonable value of seconds: > > That works for Gnome, but what about vttys and other desktop environments? > > I'm not saying to not use the gtk thing, I'm just wondering if there is a > toggle that would catch it globally somewhere. Yes, this is an issue. I use KDE as a desktop but regularly run several GTK apps including Firefox, Eclipse, and OpenOffice. A month or so ago I tried -- and failed -- to find a way to turn off the blinking cursor in these apps (due to issues with evil proprietary graphics drivers) without manually running gnome-settings MEF -- Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
