Merge branch 'fix-ws-con'

[i3/i3] / testcases / lib / StartXDummy.pm

diff --git a/testcases/lib/StartXDummy.pm b/testcases/lib/StartXDummy.pm
index 68ca79f68a6dd63585136b43921f1e95cdec36bb..592feb8501ea4a0c4b0e239e6ceb60e1b16ca1e1 100644 (file)
--- a/testcases/lib/StartXDummy.pm
+++ b/testcases/lib/StartXDummy.pm
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ sub start_xdummy {
         return unless @pids == 0;
         print STDERR "All Xdummy processes died.\n";
         print STDERR "Use ./complete-run.pl --parallel 1 --keep-xdummy-output\n";
+        print STDERR "";
+        print STDERR "A frequent cause for this is missing the DUMMY Xorg module,\n";
+        print STDERR "package xserver-xorg-video-dummy on Debian.\n";
         exit 1;
     };
 
@@ -110,7 +113,7 @@ sub start_xdummy {
         # actual system X configuration.
         my $socket = fork_xserver($keep_xdummy_output, $displaynum,
                 './Xdummy', ":$displaynum", '-config', '/dev/null',
-                '-nolisten', 'tcp');
+                '-configdir', '/dev/null', '-nolisten', 'tcp');
         push(@displays, ":$displaynum");
         push(@sockets_waiting, $socket);
         $displaynum++;