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Date:      30 Dec 2001 22:14:17 -0500
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: mc-4.5.54_2
Message-ID:  <1009768464.65124.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOKENLCKAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
References:  <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOKENLCKAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>

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On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 21:52, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
> Dear Midnight commander port maintainer.
> 
> I have no place to turn to, I have exhausted all sources of research 
> on the Midnight commander program. In the FBSD question I asked for 
> recommendation for a command line file manager like the MS/Dos tree 
> command. Many FBSD users recommended Midnite commander. I installed 
> it from the ports and have trying to get it to work. I can not get 
> mouse point & click or cut & Past to work when Midnite commander is 
> launched from the command line. All indications from different FBSD 
> mailing list indicate that these functions worked in the past but 
> now only works when Midnite commander is launched from XFree. I do 
> not have XFree installed on my machine. I selected the kernel devel 
> option during stand/sysinstall. I have tried the below listed additions 
> to rc.conf without any results. I have searched all the mailing lists 
> including FBSD's using google looking for Midnite commander, Midnight 
> commander, mc, and midc going back to 1997. I even emailed the people 
> who answered questions and there email addressed bounced. Below are some 
> snipits that looked interesting as subjects that needed looking into, 
> but are out of my domain of knowledge. 
> That is why I have turned to you for help.

As far as I can tell, mc requires gpm for mouse support.  This is only
available on Linux.

Joe

> 
> What needs to be done to get mouse control to work for point & click and 
> cut & Past when launched from the command line with out having the 
> base XFree system installed on the machine?  
> 
> 
> The MC FAQ says
> 3.1 How do I enable mouse support?
>   Invoke midc like this (without quotes): "midc -x". If this doesn't work
>   upgrade to a terminal which is compatible with the Xterm mouse sequences.
>   Alternatively, on Linux console you can use gpm.
> 
> Same results starting with midc -x as with out the -x, mouse does not work.
> What do I have to do to make the master root console to act like a xterm 
> or enable the console/telnet to use a mouse compatible configuration?
> 
> 
> 
> Lack of "vidcontrol -m on" on the other consoles.
> add this lines to your "/etc/rc.conf" file.
> 
> moused_enable="YES"            # Run the mouse daemon.
> moused_type="ps/2"             # Set the type of mouse.
> moused_port="/dev/psm0"        # Set to your mouse port.
> moused_flags="-3"              # Any additional flags to moused.
> allscreens_flags="-m on"       # Vidcontrol mode for all virtual screens.
> 
> A final alternative might be to recompile your kernel with pcvt instead
> of syscons.  That'll give you a vt220 by default.  But I'm not sure how
> well supported that is these days (probably fine; I just haven't heard
> of anyone using it in a while).
> 
> 
> Did the latest gpm (1.17.8-1) break the mouse in Midnite Commander for
> anyone else? Mouse quit  in MC with latest potato gpm update- Has been
> a few updates ago it quit in aumix also. Seems to cut-and-paste ok but
> no click-on works. Works normally in XFree.
> 
> 
> Further info: replaced gpm with 1.17.8-2 from "incoming" - no
> improvement :(Replaced gpm with Slink gpm- now mc works fine 
> but aumix still does not respond to mouse properly. 
> Must be problem in aumix.
> 
> 
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