From owner-freebsd-gnome Sun Dec 30 19:14: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC5937B422; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 19:13:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (marcus@shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBV3DF547188; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:13:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: mc-4.5.54_2 From: Joe Clarke To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Date: 30 Dec 2001 22:14:17 -0500 Message-Id: <1009768464.65124.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message