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[Olli Kankare <838381@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree, many times the blinking cursor is just what is needed to
indicate that the focused terminal is working as intended or for example
a connection to a server is live.

Removing the blinking makes simple monitoring of the focused terminal
impossible.

Upstream should rethink their position on this, as I suspect the power
saved is so miniscule that it's completely neglectable compared to the
severe issues removing the blinking causes with the usability.

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Title:
  The cursor in active terminal window stops blinking after ten seconds.

Status in GNOME Terminal:
  Invalid
Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When the cursor stops blinking, you start to wonder if something is
  wrong.

  The point is that the cursor should never stop blinking in an active
  terminal window.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Aug 31 23:46:47 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110402)
  SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-27 (4 days ago)

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