[bug#56717] [PATCH v2 2/2] gnu: Add i3-autotiling.

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On Sat Jul 23, 2022 at 1:17 PM BST, Maxime Devos wrote:
> For these kind of things, creating the relevant directory and setting an 
> environment variable tends to work. Maybe try (setenv "HOME" 
> (getcwd)))?  However, IIUC, these fontconfig errors can usually be 
> ignored (probably because it's just a cache?), likely the "Transport 
> endpoint is not connected" test failure is independent.
We got this working on IRC :)

> My guess is that it tries to connect to the WM i3, but that WM is not 
> running in the build environment fails.
>
> You could give starting the WM before running the test a try, but maybe 
> it's not worth the effort.
Looks like the tests do a popen on i3 themselves:
<https://github.com/altdesktop/i3ipc-python/blob/master/test/ipctest.py#L16>



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