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DaveW
After installing Antix 21 (64 bit) on Dell e5430, everything seems to work except Midnight Commander (accessed via terminal) has no file select functions. File selection is usually done by holding Shift and pressing the Up or Down key. An alternate means is to select a group of files with “Select Group” on the File dropdown menu. Neither of these functions is working. However, when an indivdual file is highlighted, it can be copied, edited, or whatever.
I re-installed MC with Synaptic. But the problem persists.
Your thoughts would be much appreciated.
anticapitalista
Check the keys file for the window manager you are using.
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christophe
(I’m using core+X+icewm right now. I assume the defaults are the same as base/full antiX.)
Ctrl+t will tag a file, then I can use the cursor to move to any other file, press Ctrl+t to tag, & repeat. The filenames turn yellow when tagged. Then the usual F5/F6/etc. keys work as expected, copying/moving/whatever, the selected group.
confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019
Actually, most MC shortcut keys do not function.
Ctr-t does tag a single file, but adjacent files cannot be selected with Shift-up/down. (The file select function does work from the dropdown menu. I had forgotten to insert a pattern in the search box.)I have Antix17 32 bit, on another computer. Most MC shortcut keys have never functioned on that either. But the Shift-up/down does select files.
Both systems use Rox-icewm. The key files in /.icewm differ between the two computers. But I don’t see anything related to MC in either.
An internet search suggested copying /etc/mc/mc.keymap to ~/home/.config/mc/mc.keymap and editing as needed to avoid conflicts, etc.
But /etc/mc/mc.keymap is a link to /etc/mc/mc.default.keymap. So I copied the contents of that file to /home/.config/mc/mc.keymap.
However, the MC functions remain unchanged.- This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by DaveW. Reason: corrected file name
sybok
Hi, I use the below simple three:
‘*’ = invert current selection (if none, then select all),
‘+/-‘ = (un)select a group, pop-up window to provide “regex” for (de)selection, e.g. ‘[a-z]*.sh’,
‘insert’ = (un)select a file.
These options are listed when you click on the (vertical-top) menu item ‘File’.As the wise @anticapitalista pointed out, there can be a override of the aforementioned keys in the desktop environment.
This happens in IceWM (?) girlfriend uses where Ctrl+Space does not calculate size of the content in a currently highlighted directory.BTW, configuration files are located in the following directory ‘~/.config/mc/’.
- This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by sybok. Reason: Conflicting keys example added
christophe
Check the keys file for the window manager you are using.
I confirm on my system that the shift+arrow combo DOES work outside of X (console-only).
As anticapitalista & sybok suggest, Icewm must be overriding those key combos.confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019
BobC
I’m not so sure. I have one Dell laptop where it works just fine, and another where it doesn’t. I’m running the 4.9.270 kernel on both. Both are Dell I7’s.
On the one where it works, I normally use the IceWM desktop, so tried changing to Rox-IceWM (the default setiing), but it still worked. I also tried enabling and disabling keys in Roxterm and that had no effect, either.
I wonder if it’s keyboard related?
You could try comparing my keymap from the machine where it works to yours?
Tried the same system where it works normally, and rebooted from antiX 21 fresh USB (not updated). Shift up/down to mark didn’t work. Installed keymap from partition where it works, still didn’t work. Installed all files from ~/.config/mc and still didn’t work. Rebooted from HD, back to working.
One difference is that the flashdrive boot is not updated. The other is that on my main system, there are MANY additional packages installed.
I guess the conclusion I have at this point is that it CAN work, but not sure what the deciding factor is.
I did the updates on the fresh USB setup, and they had no effect. At this point it looks like something else I have installed or configured on my main system different than standard is allowing it to work correctly on that setup. Sorry, it doesn’t look like I can be of much help.
- This reply was modified 9 months ago by BobC.
- This reply was modified 9 months ago by BobC.
blur13
I dont use MC but tested it on antix 19, the key combos dont work as expected. Another odd thing is that the cpu spikes when used in terminal emulaters Alacritty and ST, but works fine in RoxTerm.
I use MC all of the time but never knew about those keys
I’ll have to investigate what might be affecting the way they map. I ran a ps -aux when I was booted from the flashdrive, and will compare it to one from my normal boot to see if i can spot what’s different.
I appreciate everyone’s suggestions.
Bob C – Thanks for the mc.keymap file. It is substantially the same as mine (a few minor differences). Too bad most of those key combos don’t work. But at least, fewer functioning keys is less taxing on limited personal memory resources. It would be nice if the few that I remember would work as expected.
Strangely, neither mc.keymap (yours or mine) includes any of the “C-x” key combos which are shown on the dropdown lists. For example, the File menu shows Chmod as “C-x c” and Chown as “C-x o”. But neither appear in mc.keymap.
However, the “shift-up” and “shift-down” combos are included in the mc.keymap.
The /.icewm/keys file does not include either “shift-up” or “shift-down”. It does use “Ctrl+Shift+KP_Up” and “Ctrl+Shift+KP_Down” which are supposed to move windows to top or bottom of screen. However, these don’t seem to accomplish those tasks either. (I don’t need those to work.)
Yes, they have too many keyboard assignments that don’t get used that often where they have designated more than 1 default, and that results in so many keys to remember that I forget them.
I made a help screen of them before, but would need to add many more if I was to add them all to it.
Here is the current list after slotting in some of the new ones. For IceWM, I wrote a script to make the help screen list. MC needs something similar.
mc == Created Sunday 22 March 2020 MC Running from Roxterm In Directory View Alt+F Find Files anywhere Alt+S Search for files on this Directory list (as you type) Alt+H List History line commands Alt+P Prev History line command Alt+N Next History line command Alt+. Toggle show/hide hidden files Alt+T Toggle panel display type Alt+Enter Copy current filename to command line Alt+g TopOnScreen - Move the selection bar to the first visible entry in the panel Alt+r MiddleOnScreen - Move the selection bar to the middle visible entry in the panel Alt+j BottomOnScreen - Move the selection bar to the last visible entry in the panel Displaying content Ctrl+o Toggle show/hide the panels Ctrl+R Rescan/Refresh active panel Ctrl+U Flip panels Alt+0 Open path in other panel Ctrl+- Frequently used directories, directory hot-list File manipulation and shell commands CopySingle Shift-F5, F15 MoveSingle Shift-F6, F16 DeleteSingle Shift-F8, F18 EditNew Shift-F4, F14 ViewRaw Shift-F3, F13 Select + ('plus' key) select (tag) a group of files Unselect \ ('backslash' key) unselect a group of files Ctrl+X+C Change permissions Ctrl+X+o Change owner Ctrl+X+S Create symlink Ctrl+X-Ctrl+S Edit symlink Esc+Tab Completion, like tab in shell Ctrl+Space Show directory size Ctrl+X+I Shows File/Directory info, press again to return to panel Ctrl+X+Q Quick View – View content of files in a preview window (F7 for search works), press again to return to panel Selecting Insert select single file * (asterisk) select all files, 2x un-selects if all files were selected, or inverts selection if files were selected (using a mask or insert) + (plus) select mask, regular expression can be used – (minus) un-select mask, regular expression can be used File panel actions Action Default shortcut Description Up Up, C-p move the selection bar to the previous entry in the panel Down Down, C-n move the selection bar to the next entry in the panel Left Left move the selection bar to the left Right Right move the selection bar to the right PageUp PgUp, Alt-v move the selection bar one page up PageDown PgDn, Alt-p move the selection bar one page down Top Home, a1, Alt-< move the selection bar to the first entry in the panel Bottom End, c1, Alt-> move the selection bar to the last entry in the panel Search Ctrl-s, Alt-s start a quick filename search in the directory listing SelectCodepage Alt-e change charset of current panel History Alt-H show the directory history HistoryNext Alt-u move to the next directory in the history HistoryPrev Alt-y move to the previous directory in the history SelectInvert Alt-* invert selection on the current panel PanelOtherSync Alt-i make the current directory of the current panel also the current directory of the other panel PanelOtherCd Alt-o If the currently selected file is a directory, load that directory on the other panel and moves the selection to the next file. If the currently selected file is not a directory, load the parent directory on the other panel and moves the selection to the next file PanelOtherCdLink Alt-l If the currently selected file is a link to the directory, load that directory on the other panel and moves the selection to the next file CdChild Ctrl-PgDn move to the child directory CdParent Ctrl-PgUp move to the parent directory CdParentSmart move to the parent directory only if command line is empty, else erase the previous character in the command line Mark Ins, Ctrl-t tag or untag files. To untag files, just retag a tagged file MarkDown Shift-Down tag file and move the selection bar to the next entry MarkUp Shift-Up tag file and move the selection bar to the previous entry Enter Enter Sort SortReverse SortPrev SortNext SortByName SortByExt SortBySize ScrollLeft scroll long file names in panel to the left ScrollRight scroll long file names in panel to the right- This reply was modified 9 months ago by BobC.
BobC., Thank you for your list of frequently used MC commands. I copied it for future reference.
I’m looking forward to being able to put them to use, if my non-functioning commands issue can be resoved.
Thanks!
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