urxvt and powertop

Marc Lehmann schmorp at schmorp.de
Wed Apr 28 09:06:34 CEST 2010


On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:05:18PM +0200, giggz <giggzounet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe you should explain your behaviour in more detail.
> 
> ok :
> I just run powertop in urxvt and in the report of powertop, urxvt is
> always first (20% of the wake up).

Well, cursorblinking is roughly two wake-ups/s, so already quite low.

> But you solve the problem. With URxvt*cursorBlink:	    False
> urxvt doesn't appear anymore.

Not quite, cursor blinking is off by default - somebody must have enabled
it somewhere for it to be active first, for example, you, or whoever built
the package for your distribution.

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