On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:33:12PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
TBH until recently I thought this problem had gone away. Shortly
after
powertop came out the blinking cursor issue was identified as an issue
and I saw patches flying around to fix the problems. It wasn't until I
noticed OLPC was patching some part of the the gnome stack to fix the
issue that I realised that it was still an issue. Surely it can be
made some sort of "Cursor Blink" config option that is disabled by
default but allow the people that want blinking to enable it
relatively simply.
It is - System/Preferences/Hardware(?)/Keyboard(!)/General/ . FWIW:
* Tue Feb 3 2009 Matthew Garrett <mjg(a)redhat.com> - 2.24.1-9
- Default to a non-blinking cursor
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