X forwarding emacs error

The freebsd11.1 is running as a guest of VBOX. By using X forwarding i.e. ssh -X ... xterm, i can make X app(s) appear on my local windows host. However, when x-forwarding emacs, it doesnot work normally.

The issue I was running into stemmed from a Gtk+ bug which caused Emacs to crash when an X11 connection was unexpectedly lost.

Recompiling emacs to use a different X toolkit solved the issue.

./configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid

But as its poor hardware resource of the VM, i donot want to build emacs by myself. Can we achieve this goal only using pkg

Sincerely!
 
Recompiling emacs to use a different X toolkit solved the issue.

./configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid
Use the port. It has various options you can set.
Code:
X11 toolkit (each implies X11): you can only select none or one of them
     GTK2=off: GTK+ 2 GUI toolkit support
     GTK3=on: GTK+ 3 GUI toolkit support
     MOTIF=off: Motif widget library support
     XAW=off: Athena widgets
     XAW3D=off: Athena3D widgets

Can we achieve this goal only using pkg
Short and simple answer, no.
 
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