Hello, Sunday, March 9, 2008, 6:14:59 PM, you wrote:
> Glad somebody got back to me on this at last! Sad he has no solution (i > am sure there is one)... > Abbreviated from Pavel Tsekov: ->> > If i quit out of X with mc on once, EVERY subsequent instance ->> > starts at console size within the (much larger) terminal window ->> ->> Every instance of which program ? > "EVERY subsequent instance" of mc. actually, after i started to > consider this more, i recognized that it is not necessarily after i > "quit out of X". However, once this behavior starts it will not stop, > so "EVERY subsequent instance" remains true. Since it could, in fact, > start right after boot-up, i assume there is some issue whereby > sometimes X sets something before mc or vice versa and USUALLY it > happens the right way around but SOMETIMES, for my purposes anyway, it > happens the wrong way. ->> > open a tab, start mc (which now starts proper size), and then - ->> ->> Do you mean that MC doesn't detect the terminal size properly ? > Yes sir. Or at least the initial mc doesn't (from "Terminal -e mc"). Please, describe in simple steps how to reproduce the behavior that you consider wrong. ->> > other tab. The (more) irritating part is that now the panel ->> directory ->> > does not count as the fresh tab directory...and this behavior does ->> not ->> > reset until i reboot, even if mc is cleanly exited a number of ->> times. ->> ->> I do not really understand what you are talking about. > Well, if Terminal opens with mc in it, any Terminal tabs you open > (ctrl-T) begin (as plain shell consoles) with their pwd set to the > active panel directory. But if you open a Terminal (or a Terminal tab) > and type "mc", fresh tabs will just open up pwd=~. Same applies for this problem. > This is not specific to "Terminal", as i said before. The real problem > is mc SOMETIMES not detecting the terminal size. So you have actually tried it with other terminals ? _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
