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Bug#681781: dummy: Please include sample xorg.conf



Excerpts from Samuel Thibault's message of Mon Jan 07 15:01:28 +0100 2013:
> Michal Suchanek, le Mon 07 Jan 2013 14:38:13 +0100, a écrit :
> > Excerpts from Samuel Thibault's message of Mon Jan 07 14:24:24 +0100 2013:
> > > Michal Suchanek, le Mon 07 Jan 2013 14:01:35 +0100, a écrit :
> > > > Excerpts from Samuel Thibault's message of Mon Jan 07 13:40:50 +0100 2013:
> > > > > Michal Suchanek, le Mon 07 Jan 2013 13:33:11 +0100, a écrit :
> > > > > > How are these devices not configured?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Err, aren't you taking this thread for another one?  See the subject,
> > > > > this is about providing a sample xorg.conf.  I'm here saying there
> > > > > is no need for input sections, since they are already automatically
> > > > > configured.
> > > > 
> > > > And I am saying that there *is* need for input sections to prevent them
> > > > from being automatically configured.
> > > 
> > > Ooops, sorry, I hadn't understood that input devices were not desired in
> > > this bug report.
> > > 
> > > I'm however wondering how this use case differs from simply using Xvfb.
> > 
> > Xvfb is deprecated, bitrotten, does not support xrandr and other
> > extensions, ..
> 
> Could it perhaps be replaced by a mere shell script which invokes Xorg,
> giving it the sample xorg.conf you provided?  That'd be a way easier
> upgrade path for users than knowing about the dummy driver etc.

For that the sample config has to live somewhere. It won't live in Xvfb
package because while it's deprecated upstream it's not a reason for
Debian to remove it. Or is it?

Thanks

Michal


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