Thomas Bächler said the following at 08/15/2011 03:36 PM : > Am 15.08.2011 23:30, schrieb D. R. Evans: >> I have arch running on a machine that I access through vnc. >> >> I just installed and tried to run emacs on the arch machine in an xfce >> terminal window, but I get the following error: >> >> $ emacs logcfg.dat >> Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.0". >> Undefined color: "black" >> $ >> >> Every other program I've tried (which admittedly is not many) has worked >> fine. What do I need to do to resolve this issue and run emacs? > > About the "undefined color" thing: > http://paste.xinu.at/7lZ/ > > xorg-rgb is unneeded by xorg, but VNC still uses it. I don't uunderstand the contents of the URL, but it seems like it's a packaging dependency error if emacs needs a package but it's not automagically downloaded. Anyway, I did a pacman -Ss xorg-rgb and pacman returned no hits. So I'm still unable to use emacs over the VNC connection :-( Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR
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