Re: Invoking Qt-embedded apps from mc

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

Hello!

Next time please mention version of mc and your OS, as well as the
terminal name.

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:

> I get these errors when I start a Qt-Embedded
> application from mc:
> : error setting keyboard mode
> : Invalid argument
> Are these mc messages? I cannot find them in Qt.

I cannot find "setting keyboard mode" in mc-4.6.0.

> Qt reads directly from /dev/tty and indeed the keyboard "works" when I
> invoke a Qt app directly but not when I do it through mc. Obviously I
> would much prefer to use mc. BTW Qt-embedded is ideal because now you
> don't need X anymore.

I think you need to use "mc -u" so that the applications would be run in
the original terminal, not in the pseudoterminal created for the subshell.
The downside is that you won't have a subshell.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin