Re: removing xsetmode and xsetpointer?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 05:29:44PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 01:25:40PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>  > Hi!
>  > 
>  > During a recent discussion on xorg-devel, Peter Hutterer mentioned
>  > that xsetmode and xsetpointer are basically obsolete.
>  > 
>  > You can do what they did with "xinput --set-mode" and "xinput
>  > --set-pointer", though the latter doesn't do anything anymore.
>  > 
>  > Details here:
>  > http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2013-July/036831.html
>  > 
>  > I've removed them from pkgsrc for this reason, and suggest removing
>  > them from xsrc as well.
>  > 
>  > Comments?
> 
> Maybe we can sort out PR 45594? :-)

I think Peter Hutterer is the right person for this, since he
maintains the program and he's probably willing to improve it
(including documentation). Perhaps you find a slightly better way to
ask for documentation than that PR though ;)
 Thomas