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From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
To: "Lowell Gilbert" <lowell@world.std.com>
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Subject: RE: [freebsd-questions] mouse support for Midnight Comander
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:15:35 -0500
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Yes mouse is in the rc.conf.  any more ideas?

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From: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com [mailto:lowell@be-well.no-ip.com]On Behalf Of
Lowell Gilbert
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To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish"
Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] mouse support for Midnight Comander

barbish@a1poweruser.com ("Joe & Fhe Barbish") writes:

> I installed Midnight Commander (IE: Like DOS tree command) running on the
> machine console as user root.
> The FAQ say
> 3.1 How do I enable mouse support?
>    Invoke mc 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
> terminal
>  which is compatible with the Xterm mouse sequences?.

Are you running moused?  I would guess you'd need to.  There's a hook
in rc.conf(5) for enabling it automatically at boot.


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