Re: Midnight Commander freezes host when invoked from panel launcher

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On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 at 22:00, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:

> System: Lenovo ThinkPad T430 running Slackware64-15.0.
>
> Midnight Commander (mc) is a dual-pane, text-mode file manager. When I
> invoke it in a virtual terminal it loads and displays as it does on my
> other
> network hosts. But, when I added it to a panel 2 launcher the same command,
> `/usr/bin/mc' locks the system. It does not display the application and
> neither mouse clicks or keyboard commands (other than ctrl-alt-F[n] which
> changes to a text console from the GUI. A system reboot is required to
> recover.
>
> What might cause this freeze?
>

My guess is that MC is trying to read from stdin.

Try killing the process from the text console and see if that restores
input in Xorg.

Cheers
Olivier

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr">On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 at 22:00, Rich Shepar=
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quote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1=
px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">System: Lenovo ThinkPad T430 ru=
nning Slackware64-15.0.<br>
<br>
Midnight Commander (mc) is a dual-pane, text-mode file manager. When I<br>
invoke it in a virtual terminal it loads and displays as it does on my othe=
r<br>
network hosts. But, when I added it to a panel 2 launcher the same command,=
<br>
`/usr/bin/mc&#39; locks the system. It does not display the application and=
<br>
neither mouse clicks or keyboard commands (other than ctrl-alt-F[n] which<b=
r>
changes to a text console from the GUI. A system reboot is required to<br>
recover.<br>
<br>
What might cause this freeze?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My guess =
is that=C2=A0MC is trying to read from stdin.</div><div><br></div><div>Try =
killing the process from the text console and see if that restores input in=
 Xorg.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Olivier</div></div></div>

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