Improve error message in headless mode #3685
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Intended Change
A fellow student was using KeY on a system where headless java was installed, and was thus confused why the proram would not launch normally. It seems that
java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.isHeadless()also returnsfalseiflibawtis not available, i.e. a headless version of Java is installed. In this case it helped us to debug to set the java runtime flag-Djava.awt.headless=false, thus exposing the actual problem (in the form of a crash becauselibawtis not installed).For this reason, we found it would be nice to provide a bit more details about possible causes in case the program terminates with error when launched normally in headless mode.
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The contributions within this pull request are licensed under GPLv2 (only) for inclusion in KeY.