Removal of offscreen display support (--offscreen)

[Kevin Gunn]

I confirmed with QA they don't have any known use/reliance on --offscreen,
so +1 on removal
br,kg

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 4:24 AM, Alexandros Frantzis <
alexandros.frantzis at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> for a few years now, Mir has provided the --offscreen option to render
> to offscreen buffers instead of the real outputs (note that it still
> needs proper GPU/GLESv2 support, and it doesn't work in all
> environments). This option was implemented experimentally in order to
> help with automated QA scenarios, but it was never adopted, and we
> didn't get any feedback or improvement requests.
>
> Unless someone is currently using --offscreen, or has a valid use case
> for it, I would like to remove it from our code base.
>
> Thanks,
> Alexandros
>
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