Re: Mouse support bugs and a couple of feature requests (fwd)

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

Stephan, please, keep the discussion on the mailing list.

I am forwarding your messages there.

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Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 05:10:12 -0400
From: Stephan Sokolow <ssokolow ssokolow com>
To: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>
Subject: Re: Mouse support bugs and a couple of feature requests

On Monday September 4, 2006 04:41, you wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Stephan Sokolow wrote:
> > 3. The -x option prevents gpm from working at the console.
>
> Why would you do that ?

Because -x is the only way to get mouse support working inside my
Yakuake-->bash-->screen-->mc stack for some reason. My more important
complaint is that I can't get console mouse support when running MC inside
screen and yet every other GPM-supporting app works fine.

> > As for the feature requests:
> > 1. could you please add an option to start with MC hidden (equivalent to
> > starting normally and then pressing Ctrl+o) so I can stick it at the end
> > of my .bashrc comfortably?
>
> But then you would end up in another shell - the one started by MC and not
> in your login shell. Do you really want that ?

My system already triggers a bash --> screen --> bash stack on login because
I've been too busy to solve my "screen won't work as a login shell" problem.

I just want an easy way to automate the "start MC hidden" part of a bash -->
screen -> mc --> bash stack.

If I can find the time to fix screen, I'll prune it down to screen --> mc -->
bash.

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