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Subj:	DECwindows hint - getting rid of blinking cursor from login screen

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From: "Quick, VT-180, to the VAXmobile." <JMS@mis.arizona.edu>
Subject: DECwindows hint - getting rid of blinking cursor from login screen
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If you're using a big VAX to paint the "DIGITAL/login" banner
on small VAXstations, you may have noticed that an idle workstation
eats up about 2/100ths of a CPU second every elapsed second.

Why is it doing this on an otherwise unused system?  Well, look
at the cursor, and you'll see.   That's right, the blink-blink-blink
of the cursor is controlled by your bigger VAX system, to the tune
of two invert pixmap operations every second.  

Now, on a big VAX you probably don't care, but if you do, here's how
you can make the blink go away:

In DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS:DECW$LOGIN.DAT, insert the following
line virtually anywhere (near the top is good):

*blinkRate:0

jms

Joel M Snyder, U Arizona MIS Dep't, Tucson, AZ, 85721  Phone: 602.621.2748
BITNET: jms@arizmis  Internet: jms@mis.arizona.edu  SPAN: 47541::uamis::jms   
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