Re: Running midnight commander from a menu

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:00:04AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:42:52 +0100
> Dion <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > Recently I have been having all sorts of problems running M-C
> > > from a menu (as opposed to calling it up while in a terminal).
> > > 
> > > I have tried creating a small script in my home dir and calling
> > > it via xterm -e on the menu.
> > > It seems no matter which way I do it..the MC screen is messed up
> > > in various ways..sometimes the directory list is partly
> > > overwritten, other times the left hand side of the F key prompts
> > > is missing..etc etc.
> > > 
> > > It also seems Icewm doesn't have this problem...the identical
> > > script called in IceWm works without a problem. Is there some
> > > fundamental difference between the two wm's..or is my Fluxbox
> > > config messed up someway?
> 
> > 
> > Usually I define commands like this directly in the menuentry. Try
> > this line in your menu:
> > 
> > [exec] (mc) {xterm -e mc}
> > 
> 
>    That's how I do it usually...but because lately I've been
> switching back and forth between Fluxbox and Icewm...I've taken
> to writing a small shell script and calling that from the menus.
> 
>    
> 
> > If this works, you can start customizing size and fonts to get
> > something more managable, e.g. for something more command-line
> > looking:
> > 
> > [exec] (mc) {xterm -bg black -fg gray -g 90x36 -fa "Courier" -fs 12
> > -e mc -bd}
> 
> 
>   On my system this results in a terminal window larger than m-c...
> with the result there is black blank screen on the right hand side and below m-c.
> In Icewm...the black blank area is even larger...must be something to do with the  way
> the two handles windows.
> I always have problems when I use xterm in these kinds of situation...I have
> taken to using urxvt which seems the like my system better :)
> Guess there is no ultimate solution....I'll continue experimenting.
> 
> 
> 
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> Frank<[email protected]>
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On my fluxbox (Fluxbox 1.1.1) I use the following:

[exec] (mc) {uxterm -r -e /usr/bin/mc}

Notice uxterm not xterm...works fine for me

-- 
Alexander J.M.
Debian Squeeze
Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 06:32:16 UTC 2010 GNU/Linux

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