Midnight Commander - Where is the subshell?

[herbert langhans]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:05:31AM +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> herbert langhans said the following on 2009-12-30 09:21:
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:22:29AM +0000, Dave M. wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:37 PM, herbert langhans
> >> <herbert.raimund at gmx.net> wrote:
> >>> Hi Daemons,
> >>> I have just installed the brandnew mc 4.7 - now there is still an old little annoyance:
> >>>
> >>> Being root I can switch away the mc-commander and use the shell, CTRL+o does the trick.
> >>>
> >>> But as a normal user CTRL+o blanks the screen, no shell prompt appears and hitting a key just shows mc again.
> >>>
> >>> The subshell support must be working, all is fine if I am root.
> >>> What is wrong there, anyone knows the trick using the subshell as a normal user??
> >>>
> 
> >> Hello,
> >> Check your directory permissions on ~home/.mc
> > 
> > I tried 777 on ~/.mc - still the same problem.
> > 
> > How about other listers Midnight Commander? Is it the same on your computers?
>  > Maybe I will write to the port maintainerabout it,
>  > for the case it is a common bug.
> 
> 
> I have no problems with mc subshell. You can move ~/.mc to some other 
> name and start over.

Fascinating. I have the 'no subshell' phenomenon on the desktop and the laptop. Tried also from another user login, still the same. Root can use mc-subshell, but users get a blank screen with CTRL-o.

It even seems to be not a common problem. Just common on my FreeBSD-computers..

Cheers
herb langhans

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