On 12/28/20 10:33 AM, Nat Taylor wrote: > Hmm... Everything but LC_ALL is UTF-8 > mc -a does fix it > But I have figured out that I was using xfce4-terminal instead of Konsole > or QTerminal, and the problem is only there. > > I guess the moral of the story is to use mc -a if you are using > xfce4-terminal, or just use a different terminal for mc > > I had installed pv and progress in attempts to get progress meters while > transferring files to my new hard drive from the command line over the > network, but then realized that mc already had progress meters and worked > great. > > I guess they weren't the culprits after all. > > I guess I hadn't tried mc in the xfce4-terminal I had inadvertently > launched. Unless me installing advcpmv locally to test somehow borked it > just for xfce4-terminal > >
I've used mc with xfce-terminal for years and ages. versions 4.10, 4.12
had some issues with line drawing characters with some system fonts,
4.14 was better. I'm on 4.16 now (xfce-terminal-0.8.10). spiffy!
in ~/.bashrc I have
# Set 256 color for XFCE terminal
if [ "$COLORTERM" == "xfce4-terminal" ] ; then
export TERM=xterm-256color
I also have xfce-terminal preferences set to use "Monospace Regular 12pt"
Note that, depending on xfce-terminal and mc versions, not all Options
-> Appearance work well in xfce-terminal. pick one that looks good.
With UTF-8 <default> and mc46 should always work fine without the -a
option. There are a number of styles that may work better with your
default system font.
If you like mc, check out krusader (part of KDE5)
btw, rsync also has a progress meter option (--progress and --info=progress)
All the GUI and CLI file managers have progress bars. I have no idea why
there are so may duplicate projects to add stuff to mv, cp etc, when
rsync works just fine when you RTFM.
Moral of the story: Don't blame xfce-terminal for PEBKAC.
-Ed
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