Drop usage of xorg void driver in xpra's xorg.conf

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Issue migrated from trac ticket # 843

component: server | priority: major | resolution: fixed

2015-04-27 13:28:32: jonathan.underwood created the issue

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According to a redhat xorg maintainer:

"The use of the "void" input driver in xpra is obsolete. This driver existed to provide empty input devices back when the server required at least one pair of input devices to exist. That hasn't been true since server 1.6 (in 2007).

The only use of it seems to be in the xorg.conf where it can be safely removed i.e. both InputDevice sections and the references in the ServerLayout. The server will initialize a default device for both."

Downstream bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215527

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2015-04-27 14:08:32: antoine changed owner from antoine to jonathan.underwood

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2015-04-27 14:08:32: antoine commented

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Done in r9165 for trunk, due to be released real-soon-now(tm).

Unfortunately, this won't go into the v0.14.x branch because we still support centos5, which ships with Xorg version 1.1

Can I close this ticket?

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2015-04-27 14:13:38: jonathan.underwood commented

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Sure - I mostly just wanted a second opinion that it was fine to remove. Thanks.

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2015-04-27 14:16:01: antoine changed status from new to closed

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2015-04-27 14:16:01: antoine set resolution to fixed

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2015-04-27 14:16:01: antoine commented

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It's fine, just make sure you grab both changes (I made a mess of the first one): r9165 + r9166.

Briefly tested on fedora and centos6.

Added to tracker ticket #665.

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2015-05-30 15:38:10: antoine commented

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Missed removing void from the packaging dependencies, now done in:

• r9550 for trunk
• 9549 for v0.15.x
• 9551 for v0.14.x (Fedora 22+ only)

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2015-08-05 05:16:39: antoine commented

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Missed this one: r10219