No console mouse support in Midnight Commander

Silent-Hunter cheery314 at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 10 02:08:26 UTC 2010


  On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Hiisi wrote:
> 2010/10/10 Silent-Hunter<cheery314 at hotmail.com>:
>>   On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>> On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 13:49:36 +0400, Hiisi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Check file permissions for mc and gpm package files. I did it with
>>>> this bash script:
>>> Your installation is Fedora 12. What does the OP ("Silent-Hunter") run?
>>>
>>> In short: mc+gpm works for normal users with Fedora 12 but fails for
>>> normal users with Fedora 13 and Fedora 14.
>>>
>>> I've filed  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/641608  for Fedora 13, because
>>> when I disable SELinux, gpm in mc works again for normal users.
>>>
>> I run Fedora 13. Do I really need SELinux?
> Compare to the benefit of mouse support in mc, yes, you need SELinux
> enabled. My system is F12, so I can't help you any more. Hope others
> can.
> All the best
OK. It's just that I never had it before, and I don't really know what 
it does. I'll do some research on it.


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