Re: RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

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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.

-sv


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