On 21.08.21 08:50, Gene Heskett wrote: > The default desktop, xfce4, of our buster installer, steals the F10 key > to bring up the terminals menu pulldown. But for an old hand that's a > pain in the ass because it nakes you hunt up the mouse and click on the > F10 button to quit mc. And it is not in the /etc/xfce4 keyboard related > menu's anyplace so is not easily found and turned off. > > Its actually in the terminal preferences, with a default of on and you > have to checkmark it to turn it off. So now I can use mc from the > command line.
Many thanks, Gene, for the pointer. I've just used that to clobber its hijacking of F1 as well, as I use that in Vim, and Mutt uses it for its manual. Not that I've been using xfce-terminal until (coincidentally) trying it out half an hour ago. The old-fashioned xterms I use don't hijack function keys, so I haven't had the problem. However, even using: XTERM="/usr/bin/xterm -u8" doesn't ensure it displays all utf8 characters, which is distinctly annoying. (Recently, `'` and `-` in list posts have been rendering as small squares when arriving as two-byte characters for some reason.) Now I'm tossing up whether to invest time in finding an xterm utf8 fix, or fixing the other problem with xfce-term; --color-text=yellow shows as orange, which contrasts poorly with --color-bg=darkslategrey . Add that the colours in xfce-term are washed-out, and I'm wondering if it's worth pursuing. (Having used those xterm colours since SunOS 4.1.3, back in the 1990s, I'm disinclined to change for no good reason.) Ah, uxterm is better; it handles `'` and `-`better ... but not everything.It also handles the classical options: uxterm -bg darkslategrey -fg yellow Erik _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
