Re: Mouse stopped working in MC

On Sun, 2 Feb 2020, Frank McCormick wrote:

>
>
> On 2/2/20 6:04 AM, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
>> I would be careful about assigning blame with xterm maintainer also 
>> reading this list ;-) Maybe we are doing something that gets xterm 
>> confused... do you have a way of consistenly reproducing the problem?
>> 
>> On Sun, 2 Feb 2020, Adam Pribyl wrote:
>> 
>>> Is it reproducible? This happens from time to time, but is not mc 
>>> fault but xterm. It shoul help to reset the term with "reset" command.
>>>
>>> On Sat, 1 Feb 2020, Frank McCormick wrote:
>>>
>>>>  I am running Debian Sid fully updated. My mouse has stopped
>>>>  working in MC. Instead I get key codes on the MC command line.
>>>>  I normally run MC in an xterm.
>>>>
>>>>  How do I go about resolving this.
>> 
>
> On my machine, if I go into /usr/bin and run xterm directly, THEN run mc 
> (or mc -x) the mouse works properly. However
> if I pass any parameters to xterm, such as -g 150x40 -e mc
> then the mouse stops working and I get keycodes on the
> mc command line.
>
> I should note that I get into /usr/bin by running this small
> script.
>
> cd ~
> xterm -g 153x40+150+20 -fn 10x20
>
> I do this because I run rox-filer to put icons on the desktop
> with Icewm.
>
> Since this problem started, I have changed running xterm to
> running lxterm (for a unicode env) and the problem has
> disappeared.

xterm should be also utf8 capable, if this is enabled during build 
(ctrl+right click should shoul utf8 stuff - if this is enough). I also use 
IceWm on Fedora and I am not able to reproduce it this way, but I know it 
happens from time to time...

>> The problem has been resolved but I don't understand what is happening 
> or why.
>
> Frank

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