mouse in midnight commander...

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, flux wrote:

> I got a problem with my mouse. I use Midnight Commander file browser.
> When I run Midnight from XFree my mouse works well when clicking on
> menus, files, etc... But when I try to do the same operations from
> console my mouse selects the text over the window, in other words
> copies the screen contents in the buffer. And... no action about menu
> item selecting or something like this executed! How do I make my mouse
> perform an action rather than selecting screen contents?
> Thank you.
As far as _I_ know the console mouse only supports copy and
paste, no clicking and selecting.
Anyway - once you got used to using the F-keys and once you have
set Options --> configuration --> lynx-like motion (which allows
you to browse your directory tree with the arrow keys) you will
never ask for mouse clicking again - so fast it works.

Regards,

Uli.

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