[arch-general] unable to run emacs through VNC

[D. R. Evans]

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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