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  1. Bug #516123
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 516123

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In , Peter Wu (lekensteyn) wrote :

In June 2015 there was another attempt to get this patch merged[0], it seems that people are now recommending/leaning towards replacing xf86-video-dummy[1] by Xvfb[2][3].

The patch looks trivial enough to get merged, but maybe it never will due to Xvfb deprecation (=WONTFIX)?

 [0]: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/51428/
 [1]: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-dummy/
 [2]: http://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Xdummy
 [3]: http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.8/