Bug 440376 – app-misc/mc - mouse does not work in subshell on linux terminal

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description gilhad 2012-10-31 07:35:24 UTC]

emerged mc, did not start X, just started mc. Ctrl-O to see the black screen, click left mouse and drag to select text - mouse do not move. Release mouse, cursor jumps to new position, but text is not selected and not in clipboard.

run mc under terminal on X, Ctrl-O to see the black screen, click left mouse and drag to select text - mouse selects the text, text could be pasted by middle mouse click.

kill X, run mc on text screen, the proble is back again. Run 'TERM=xrvt mc' the mouse can select text on the text screen (but command line is on top of previus text and so as it is bad terminal type)

I just tested thet only on framebuffer (as i use more lines/char per line and nice tuxes on start)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run mc in text mode
2. Ctrl+O to subshell
3. Try select anything with mouse
Actual Results:  
mouse do not select anything

Expected Results:  
mouse works like without mc (selects, paste ...)

[Comment 1 gilhad 2012-10-31 10:36:26 UTC]

edit summary

[Comment 2 Sergey Popov (RETIRED) 2012-10-31 12:09:35 UTC]

I think this is upstream problem, but mc maintainers may know better

[Comment 3 Alex Alexander (RETIRED) 2013-02-02 02:54:07 UTC]

As Sergey suggested, this looks like an upstream bug, please open a ticket on their bug tracking system:

https://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/NewTicket

Please add the ticket's url here for future reference.

If it turns out that we are somehow at fault, feel free to re-open this ticket.

[Comment 4 gilhad 2013-02-07 11:34:31 UTC]

https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2964