[arch-general] unable to run emacs through VNC
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?
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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.
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 :-(
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2011/8/17 D. R. Evans doc.evans@gmail.com:
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 :-(
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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
Am 17.08.2011 20:38, schrieb D. R. Evans:
xorg-rgb is unneeded by xorg, but VNC still uses it.
I don't uunderstand the contents of the URL,
It's a PKGBUILD.
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 :-(
It's a problem with the VNC server, not emacs.
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D. R. Evans
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Kacper Żuk
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Thomas Bächler