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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by zozbot234 on Sunday July 13, 2025 @04:50PM (#44553616)
This is not Windows-specific, it has been shown wrt. Linux systems also. It's why recent Linux desktop environments have gotten rid of the blinking cursor in command prompt windows (that also causes frequent wakeups and screen updates) and why it probably makes sense to disable most animations too.
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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by userbinator on Sunday July 13, 2025 @05:53PM (#44554096)
It's why recent Linux desktop environments have gotten rid of the blinking cursor in command prompt windows

This used to be done entirely in hardware (VGA text modes), and I believe some early GPUs had a feature to do that in graphics modes too.

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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by JdeBP on Monday July 14, 2025 @12:41AM (#44556526)
I was surprised that no-one mentioned this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473048 , where someone is trying to put software-implemented text blinking into OpenBSD.
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