Cursor Blinks in Linux ,Noun Not Verb

Of late, I had been troubled by the distinct behavior of the cursor in my Ubuntu setup. Symptoms?

1 .The cursor blinks for sometime and you believe that everything is going fine.
2. After a timeout, the cursor stops blinking and you begin to wonder and worry.


To be more precise here is what the original bug reporter said,(if you call that a bug)

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

Well, this is bug #838381.  

This is a general feeling. However, after coming to this page, I have now stopped worrying.

Let me sum up what the article said. 

The stopping of blinking of the cursor is not a bug rather a deliberately introduced feature to save energy.

So, even though the cursor is not blinking, your code is working just as it should, behind the scenes.Period.