Monday, October 14, 2024

Re: mouse in midnight commander (mc); alternate screen

On 2024-10-14, rsykora@disroot.org <rsykora@disroot.org> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
>
> I would like to use the mouse in the midnight commander running
> in xterm in X11. However, mouse does not seem to do anything
> other than in the xterm terminal itself.
>
> I did not find any clue in the man page.
> I tried running like
> mc -x
> mc -g
> but to no avail.

No idea about that.

> Furthermore, I would also like to use ctrl-o to
> get to the alternate screen (or subshell). At the
> moment, ctrl-o hides the panels but does not give
> the prompt.

mc subshell doesn't support OpenBSD ksh. (I had it "working" but zombies
piled up on the system).

I think it should work under bash, tcsh, zsh, etc.


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