2011/8/17 D. R. Evans <doc.evans@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > > It's PKGBUILD. You can read about AUR and making packages on Arch Wiki, or you can simply try this as non-root: mkdir xorg-rgb cd xorg-rgb wget http://paste.xinu.at/7lZ -O PKGBUILD makepkg -i
