[arch-general] unable to run emacs through VNC

[Thomas Bächler]

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.

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