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.
josh