Use Midnight Commander in glTerm

Oct 09, '02 09:01:03AM

Contributed by: madscientist

The Midnight Commander is the file manager of GNOME 1.2. It is responsible for putting icons on the desktop background. There is also a terminal interface that runs inside a terminal emulator. It is radically different from the GNOME interface and modeled after the famous Norton Commander file manager. It's available via fink, and a non-fink install was discussed in this hint.

If you install via fink, the terminal version doesn't operate too well in the OS X terminal program. You can't use your mouse, and some funcion keys don't work (including F10 for quitting the program). Well If you download the shareware terminal glTerm, your mouse works and your function keys work! Midnight-commander is very useful and this makes glTerm for me also very useful.

[Editor's note: I couldn't get the mouse to work, but the graphic character workaround discussed in the previous hint does not have to be used with glTerm, and MC looks great in glTerm!]

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