diff --git a/srcpkgs/xinit/patches/dont-use-active-vt.patch b/srcpkgs/xinit/patches/dont-use-active-vt.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 82df70fa4f1..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/xinit/patches/dont-use-active-vt.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-Revert this change that was committed to fix an issue with systemd.
-
-We want to keep the original behaviour, i.e use the first unused vt.
-
---- startx.cpp.orig	2014-09-26 14:22:23.954772539 +0200
-+++ startx.cpp	2014-09-26 14:22:32.993723320 +0200
-@@ -188,17 +188,6 @@ XCOMM process server arguments
- if [ x"$server" = x ]; then
-     server=$defaultserver
- 
--#ifdef __linux__
--    XCOMM When starting the defaultserver start X on the current tty to avoid
--    XCOMM the startx session being seen as inactive:
--    XCOMM "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806491"
--    tty=$(tty)
--    if expr match "$tty" '^/dev/tty[0-9]\+$' > /dev/null; then
--        tty_num=$(echo "$tty" | grep -oE '[0-9]+$')
--        vtarg="vt$tty_num"
--    fi
--#endif
--
-     XCOMM For compatibility reasons, only use xserverrc if there were no server command line arguments
-     if [ x"$serverargs" = x -a x"$display" = x ]; then
- 	if [ -f "$userserverrc" ]; then
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xinit/patches/fs25361.patch b/srcpkgs/xinit/patches/fs25361.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ab105d1e98b..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/xinit/patches/fs25361.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- startx.cpp	2011-08-02 18:26:57.161711018 +0400
-+++ startx.cpp	2011-08-02 19:06:39.348816866 +0400
-@@ -290,9 +290,9 @@
-     XCOMM now add the same credentials to the client authority file
-     XCOMM if '$displayname' already exists do not overwrite it as another
-     XCOMM server man need it. Add them to the '$xserverauthfile' instead.
--    for displayname in $authdisplay $hostname$authdisplay; do
-+    for displayname in $authdisplay $hostname/unix$authdisplay; do
-         authcookie=`XAUTH list "$displayname" @@
--        | sed -n "s/.*$displayname[[:space:]*].*[[:space:]*]//p"` 2>/dev/null;
-+        | sed -n "s/.*$hostname\/unix$authdisplay[[:space:]*].*[[:space:]*]//p"` 2>/dev/null;
-         if [ "z${authcookie}" = "z" ] ; then
-             XAUTH -q << EOF
- add $displayname . $mcookie
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xinit/template b/srcpkgs/xinit/template
index 50d4bbe8155..a9f2b5c39dd 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/xinit/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/xinit/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template build file for 'xinit'.
 pkgname=xinit
-version=1.3.4
-revision=4
+version=1.4.0
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--with-xinitdir=/etc/X11/xinit"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 homepage="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/"
 license="MIT"
 distfiles="${XORG_SITE}/app/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
-checksum=75d88d7397a07e01db253163b7c7a00b249b3d30e99489f2734cac9a0c7902b3
+checksum=230835eef2f5978a1e1344928168119373f6df1d0a32c09515e545721ee582ef
 
 post_install() {
 	vinstall ${FILESDIR}/xinitrc 644 etc/skel .xinitrc