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 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
