Re: Running midnight commander from a menu
Frank McCormick <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.window-managers.fluxbox.user |
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:33:13 -0500 ajm <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > > > > Usually I define commands like this directly in the menuentry. > > > Try this line in your menu: > > > > > > [exec] (mc) {xterm -e mc} > > > > > > > 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 Works on my system, I get full screen MC but the colours are really dark, the blue bg, and the grey dir listing. BTW what is the -r do for uxterm ? Thanks -- Frank<[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev