Re: Mouse stopped working in MC

[Frank McCormick <beacon videotron ca>]

On 2/2/20 6:04 AM, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> I would be careful about assigning blame with xterm maintainer also 
> reading this list ;-) Maybe we are doing something that gets xterm 
> confused... do you have a way of consistenly reproducing the problem?
>
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2020, Adam Pribyl wrote:
>
> > Is it reproducible? This happens from time to time, but is not mc 
> > fault but xterm. It shoul help to reset the term with "reset" command.
> >
> > On Sat, 1 Feb 2020, Frank McCormick wrote:
> >
> > >  I am running Debian Sid fully updated. My mouse has stopped
> > >  working in MC. Instead I get key codes on the MC command line.
> > >  I normally run MC in an xterm.
> > >
> > >  How do I go about resolving this.

On my machine, if I go into /usr/bin and run xterm directly, THEN run mc 
(or mc -x) the mouse works properly. However
if I pass any parameters to xterm, such as -g 150x40 -e mc
then the mouse stops working and I get keycodes on the
mc command line.

I should note that I get into /usr/bin by running this small
script.

cd ~
xterm -g 153x40+150+20 -fn 10x20

I do this because I run rox-filer to put icons on the desktop
with Icewm.

Since this problem started, I have changed running xterm to
running lxterm (for a unicode env) and the problem has
disappeared.

The problem has been resolved but I don't understand what is happening 
or why.

Frank