Re: Mouse stopped working in MC

[Frank McCormick <beacon videotron ca>]

On 2/2/20 1:24 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 09:08:33AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > 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
>
> That could be this bug:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495435
>
> e.g., if xterm is confused about the screensize due to this
> race (which is hard to fix due to the interaction between
> X11, Xt libraries and the window manager -- there's _always_
> a delay).
>
> As a workaround, just typing "resize" should fix that.
>
> If you happen to see the problem again, it's worth a moment to verify.
>
> fwiw, I do this:
>
>         resize -s 40 80
>
> to get a 40x80 screen (works _all_ the time :-)

  After further experimentation I discovered the problem only arises 
when I use the -e parameter to xterm to run MC directly.
When I do that i.e. xterm -e mc , the mouse doesn't work. Right now I am 
working around that by using urxvt and avoiding xterm
entirely when I need to use the -e parameter. I have also tried
the wrappers uxterm and lxterm and both render the mouse inoperable when 
I use the -e parameter.
I still am not sure what the problem  is...why would urxvt not
suffer from it ?


Frank