Midnight Commander freezes host when invoked from panel launcher

[Olivier Fourdan]

On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 at 22:00, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> System: Lenovo ThinkPad T430 running Slackware64-15.0.
>
> Midnight Commander (mc) is a dual-pane, text-mode file manager. When I
> invoke it in a virtual terminal it loads and displays as it does on my
> other
> network hosts. But, when I added it to a panel 2 launcher the same command,
> `/usr/bin/mc' locks the system. It does not display the application and
> neither mouse clicks or keyboard commands (other than ctrl-alt-F[n] which
> changes to a text console from the GUI. A system reboot is required to
> recover.
>
> What might cause this freeze?
>

My guess is that MC is trying to read from stdin.

Try killing the process from the text console and see if that restores
input in Xorg.

Cheers
Olivier
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