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