Re: Mouse stopped working in MC

On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 09:08:33AM -0500, 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

That could be this bug:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495435

e.g., if xterm is confused about the screensize due to this
race (which is hard to fix due to the interaction between
X11, Xt libraries and the window manager -- there's _always_
a delay).

As a workaround, just typing "resize" should fix that.

If you happen to see the problem again, it's worth a moment to verify.

fwiw, I do this:

	resize -s 40 80

to get a 40x80 screen (works _all_ the time :-)

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
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