On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 20:36 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > 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. > Seems like a winner to me. thanks, -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
