Re: Running midnight commander from a menu

Frank McCormick <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fluxbox.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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]>

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