Description of problem: Should default to not-blinking, avoids wakeup timers and the associated power cost. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.16.0-3.el5 How reproducible: always
There are quite a bunch of bugs in vte causing lots and lots of unnecessary wakeups, but other than that, for cursor blinking we are changing gnome-terminal to respect desktop-wide GNOME blinking settings, including the blink timeout. Enforcing a default blink timeout of say 5min in gnome-settings-daemon or whoever should be setting that is probably the way to go.
Originally filed as a rhel bug, but moving to fedora. Still blinking by default in F7t4. /desktop/gnome/interface/cursor_blink_time is 1200, which hopefully is in tenths of a second and therefore means 5 minutes, but I still suggest that blinking at all is wrong.
We have the backported gtk patch to stop cursor blinking in entries and text views after a minute. But we don't seem to have the corresponging vte patch.
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Still a problem in rawhide.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
This bug should be easy to fix. Try the following: - in the source tree, the file gnome-terminal-2.24.2/src/gnome-terminal.schemas.in change the key name /schemas/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/cursor_blink_mode string (type) system (default value) to /schemas/desktop/gnome/interface/cursor_blink bool (type) false (default value) (I thought cursor_blink_mode is now obsolete, so it's safe to replace it with cursor_blink.) (you may need to change owner translation, etc.) Here is how I think it would work: - during rpmbuild the file gnome-terminal-2.24.2/src/gnome-terminal.schemas.in (#1) becomes ./BUILD/gnome-terminal-2.24.2/src/gnome-terminal.schemas (#2) - during "rpm -i" #2 becomes /etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-terminal.schemas (#3) - "rpm -q --scripts gnome-terminal" shows the following postinstall scriplet: gconftool-2 ... /etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-terminal.schemas (#4) which reads the value from #3 and store it in /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml (#5) - during run-time, gnome-terminal reads value from gconfd-2, which reads default values from #5. I tried this in my private build, and it did the trick when I tried it on my F10. The same issue (cursor default to blinking) is still in F10 official release.
Does the proposal in Comment #8 make sense to you?
Behdad, How does the proposal in Comment #8 sounds to you? Let me know if anything can be improved. Maybe we can finally close this 2+ year old bug in F11.
Please raise the issue upstream.
Am I dreaming? I installed F11 Beta and gnome-terminal cursor is *not* blinking, by default. Anyone seeing the same?
(In reply to comment #12) > Am I dreaming? I installed F11 Beta and gnome-terminal cursor is > *not* blinking, by default. Anyone seeing the same? I can confirm. No blinking here either with Rawhide (F-11 freeze).
Yeah, it's not blinking by default, I think this bug report should be closed.
Behdad, Now that this bug is fixed, why not just close it? Thanks.
Suuuuuuuuuuuure.