It's nothing I can't live with, but as stated in the original bug description, it's somewhat annoying when you don't realize that it's supposed to do that. Imho it deters users with more experience from upgrading. The action should be some kind of extra power saving option and not on by default.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/838381 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) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-terminal/+bug/838381/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
