How to use mouse with mc in console

[Peter Hugosson-Miller <pehu im se>]

I want to run mc in a console using the mouse, and I can't find out how
to do it.

I have read the documentation, which says that I should use gpm. I do
have gpm running and it is working fine:

# gpm -v
gpm 1.19.6, Thu Oct  4 00:21:21 CEST 2001

$ ps -ef | grep gpm
root       486     1  0 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gpm -m
/dev/psaux -t ps2

Here is some other version information:

$ uname -r
2.4.18

$ mc -V
GNU Midnight Commander 4.5.55
Edition: text mode
Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, ftpfs, mcfs, undelfs
With builtin Editor
Using S-Lang library with terminfo database
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
Using locale "C" (from environment variable LANG)

I start the midnight (mouseless) commander from a console as follows:

$ mc

As far as I can see, everything is set up as it should be, but still mc
does not react to the mouse as much as I would expect. I can use the
mouse in mc's built in editor to cut and paste, but that's just about
all it will do.

In the help documentation it says that I should be able to use the mc
menus, select and run files, or cd into directories, all by using the
mouse. If I click on a file or directory, the selected line in mc does
not change, and if I double click then all that happens is that the text
is highlighted. If I right click with some text highlighted, then it
gets pasted into the command line.

What steps can I take to troubleshoot this problem, or if I have missed
out some important information, what more could I provide to help
analyse the problem?

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Best regards,

Peter Hugosson-Miller