Re: Can't start mc without x windows



Technical Support wrote:
I just installed the latest midnight commander on Fedora Core 4, using the
RPM.  All went great
I am ssh'd into my linux box. When I run mc from the command line, it
always tries to start an xwindows session.  Is there a way to force mc to
run in console mode only?

Yes. Unset the DISPLAY environment variable.

  $ unset DISPLAY; mc

That should do it.

Roland



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