Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:53:29 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] vt: no blinking on console, 256/24-bit color improvements |
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Hi Adam,
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 11:39 PM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote: > Technically, every console can be made to blink by drawing/clearing affected > characters a few times per second, but that'd be quite a waste of coding > time and kernel size. There's a reason browsers dropped support for <blink> > and text-decoration:blink.
It's very simple and fast to implement in fbcon for FB_TYPE_PLANES or FB_TYPE_INTERLEAVED_PLANES and FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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