[PATCH xsetpointer] Fail configure. RIP xsetpointer.

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Tue Nov 2 14:12:06 PDT 2010


On Wed, Nov  3, 2010 at 07:07:28 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:

> XChangePointerDevice(3) is deprecated since input-hotplug (server 1.4) and
> the introduction of virtual core devices. It unconditionally returns
> BadDevice.
> 
> xsetpointer is thus pointless, and the one function that still works
> (xsetpointer -l) is available through xinput list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>

Acked-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>

Cheers,
Julien


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