Midnight Commander freezes host when invoked from panel launcher

[Olivier Fourdan]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 at 14:43, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Jun 2025, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Olivier,
>
> I wasn't clear. When I use an X11 virtual terminal (urvxt or xterm) mc
> loads
> as expected. But when I create a launcher in panel 2 using the path to the
> executable. /usr/bin/mc, it freezes the computer. All in X11 using
> xfce4-4.16. It's infrequently when I work in only a single text console.
>

You were clear and my reply still stands.

Most likely MC reads input from stdin, but when launched from the panel
which is spawned from the session, the process has no way to read stdin.

When that occurs, try switching to a console and kill the process of MC to
see whether that restores the input in Xorg.

Alternatively, just enable "[x] Run in terminal" in your launcher so that
MC (which is a text based application) can run in a terminal.

Cheers
Olivier
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