From 9ebf17c39d6711a36651aa9d024114013286b3da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ingo=20B=C3=BCrk?= <ingo.buerk@tngtech.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 22:45:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Properly error out when the layout file cannot be read. This
 will result in an actual error message for the user. fixes #1499

---
 src/commands.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/commands.c b/src/commands.c
index 0a64b2b8..92203e39 100644
--- a/src/commands.c
+++ b/src/commands.c
@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ void cmd_append_layout(I3_CMD, char *path) {
     LOG("JSON content = %d\n", content);
     if (content == JSON_CONTENT_UNKNOWN) {
         ELOG("Could not determine the contents of \"%s\", not loading.\n", path);
-        ysuccess(false);
+        yerror("Could not determine the contents of \"%s\".", path);
         free(path);
         return;
     }