Re: Running midnight commander from a menu

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 09:51:29PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> 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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from man xterm
-r      This option indicates that reverse video should be 
simulated by swapping the foreground and background colors.
It is equivalent to -rv.

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Alexander J.M.
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