Re: 2 questions

["bulia byak" <bulia dr com>]

> > 1. My cons.saver is owned by root:
> >
> > /usr/local/lib/mc/bin $ ls -l
> > total 48
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        40565 Jul 20 00:31 cons.saver*
> >
> > but I still get no option for shorter panels in Options/Layout. What may be wrong?
>
> It should be suid root.  Use "chmod +s" to make cons.saver suid root.

Did that, but still have no new options in Layout, be it as root or as a user...

> No.  Support for X libraries is limited to reading keyboard modifiers
> (Shift, Alt, Ctrl), and even that is disabled by default, because if mc is
> linked against shared libX11, in won't work without libX11, which may be
> an unreasonable requirement for some users.

Please give me a pointer as to where in the source to look for enabling X linking. I may try to implement a 
primitive X clipboard copying myself, as I really need it a lot. Any suggestions are welcome.

> In case you don't know (sorry if you do), you can read mc FAQ, question
> 3.2.  But that's not really an interaction between mc and X - the text is
> tranferred between terminal and X clipboard, and mc is just ignored.

This is lame, I want to be able to do this from keyboard...


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