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client, simply called <tt>cpan</tt>. It comes with every Perl installation and can be\r
used to install the testsuite. Many users prefer to use the more modern\r
<tt>cpanminus</tt> instead, though (because it asks no questions and just works):</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The tests additionally require <tt>Xephyr(1)</tt> to run a nested X server. Install\r
+<tt>xserver-xephyr</tt> on Debian or <tt>xorg-xserver-xephyr</tt> on Arch Linux.</p></div>\r
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<div class="title">Installing testsuite dependencies using cpanminus (preferred)</div>\r
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with an appropriate configuration file and creates a folder for each run\r
containing the appropriate i3 logfile for each testcase. The latest folder can\r
always be found under the symlink <tt>latest/</tt>. Unless told differently, it will\r
-run the tests on a separate X server instance (using the Xdummy script).</p></div>\r
+run the tests on a separate X server instance (using Xephyr).</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Xephyr will open a window where you can inspect the running test. You can run\r
+the tests without an X session with Xvfb, such as with <tt>xvfb-run\r
+./complete-run</tt>. This will also speed up the tests signficantly especially on\r
+machines without a powerful video card.</p></div>\r
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<div class="title">Example invocation of complete-run.pl+</div>\r
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<div class="paragraph"><p>If your attempt to run the tests with a bare call to ./complete-run.pl fails, try this:</p></div>\r
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-<pre><tt>$ ./complete-run.pl --parallel=1 --keep-xdummy-output</tt></pre>\r
+<pre><tt>$ ./complete-run.pl --parallel=1 --keep-xserver-output</tt></pre>\r
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-<div class="paragraph"><p>One common cause of failures is not having the X dummy server module\r
-installed. Under Debian and Ubuntu this is the package\r
-<tt>xserver-xorg-video-dummy</tt>.</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>This will show the output of Xephyr, which is the X server implementation we\r
+use for testing.</p></div>\r
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<h4 id="_ipc_interface">3.2.2. IPC interface</h4>\r
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<h3 id="_filesystem_structure">3.3. Filesystem structure</h3>\r
<div class="paragraph"><p>In the git root of i3, the testcases live in the folder <tt>testcases</tt>. This\r
-folder contains the <tt>complete-run.pl</tt> and <tt>Xdummy</tt> scripts and a base\r
-configuration file which will be used for the tests. The different testcases\r
-(their file extension is .t, not .pl) themselves can be found in the\r
-conventionally named subfolder <tt>t</tt>:</p></div>\r
+folder contains the <tt>complete-run.pl</tt> and a base configuration file which will\r
+be used for the tests. The different testcases (their file extension is .t, not\r
+.pl) themselves can be found in the conventionally named subfolder <tt>t</tt>:</p></div>\r
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│ │ ├── ...\r
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-│ └── Xdummy</tt></pre>\r
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