Midnight Commander freezes host when invoked from panel launcher

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025, Olivier Fourdan wrote:

> You were clear and my reply still stands.

Olivier,

Okay.

> 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.

That's interesting.

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

I tried that first and saw a message that the default terminial could not be
found.

I'll run it from a v.t. and ignore the panel launcher.

Thanks very much,

Rich