What Would Steve Jobs Do?

Posted Feb 5, 2009 6:08 UTC (Thu) by cpeterso (guest, #305)
Parent article: Much hot air over blinking cursors

Just for comparison: Mac OS X's Terminal defaults to a non-blinking block cursor.

What Would Steve Jobs Do?

Posted Feb 5, 2009 7:49 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] (3 responses)

Likewise are:

xterm/uxterm
mlterm
mrxvt

here (Debian Lenny)

What Would Steve Jobs Do?

Posted Feb 5, 2009 15:50 UTC (Thu) by mb (subscriber, #50428) [Link] (2 responses)

and Konsole (Debian Lenny, at least).

I like the not-blinking-cursor.

What Would Steve Jobs Do?

Posted Feb 5, 2009 22:36 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link] (1 responses)

and Konsole (Debian Lenny, at least).

Also on KDE 3.5.10 in Slackware 12.2. It's easy to make it blink, if you prefer (Settings → Configure Konsole). Of course, I'm using a konsolerc file that has persisted through several upgrades, so maybe I so configured this several Slackware releases ago.

I like the not-blinking-cursor.

I do, too. Although, considering one is running Konsole in the GUI/WM, I suppose that a lot of other activity is keeping the CPU awake, likely making the power savings a moot point.

Does a non-blinking cursor in a GUI-based console actually contribute to measurable power savings?

What Would Steve Jobs Do?

Posted Feb 6, 2009 5:43 UTC (Fri) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

> Although, considering one is running Konsole in the GUI/WM, I suppose that a lot of other activity is keeping the CPU awake, likely making the power savings a moot point.

Well if you're curious, run powertop and find out :-).

In my experience, if I'm not touching the computer, then the CPU pretty much just goes to sleep, waking up only a few times per second.

Unless firefox is running. Sigh. (Maybe this is the fault of random people's annoying javascript, I don't know.) But *every other* app I run is fine...