Hi Theo, thank you very much for the reply! As of blinking text cursor problem, I succeeded with finding an answer here <http://www.armadeus.org/wiki/index.php?title=Framebuffer>. In order to get rid of blinking text cursor one should issue under the root user the following command:
echo 0 > /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/cursor_blink Note that this change doesn’t survive the reboot, so I added it to my application before pygame initialization. I also managed to solve the “screen going black” problem. It turned out that it’s just a some sort of monitor lifetime care or energy saving and it isn’t related to pygame or systemd. Here is the solution <https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=18200&sid=98a852b1e7cf7d188545a59ccc998b9a&start=25#p1192744> that helped me to solve the problem. So it seems all my troubles with running pygame-based Python application as a systemd service are gone now. A huge thank you to everyone who participated in this long discussion!
