[arch-general] unable to run emacs through VNC

[Kacper Żuk]

2011/8/17 D. R. Evans <doc.evans at 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