Error: Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display "my_machine_name:1.0".

[Peng Yu]

Hi,

I recently installed gtk+-2.16.6 on my machine from source code. I
also installed a few other packages that are required by gtk+, which
include libXrandr-1.3.0 (compiled from source code).

Then, I get the following error when I run any gui program, for example, gvim.
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display "my_machine_name:1.0".

When I install libXrandr, I don't get the executable xrandr (my system
has an older version of xrandr command), but I get a few library files
from libXrandr-1.3.0.

$ ll *randr*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 name lilab 269898 2009-08-30 13:16:41 libXrandr.so.2.2.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 name group     18 2009-08-30 13:16:41 libXrandr.so.2 ->
libXrandr.so.2.2.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 name group     18 2009-08-30 13:16:41 libXrandr.so ->
libXrandr.so.2.2.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 name group    971 2009-08-30 13:16:41 libXrandr.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 name group 603298 2009-08-30 13:16:41 libXrandr.a

I am wondering why I get the above error. Can somebody let me know how
to fix it?

Regards,
Peng