Xfce Digest, Vol 259, Issue 4

vrgovinda vrgovinda at protonmail.com
Wed Jun 18 14:29:16 CEST 2025


> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:36:52 +0200
> From: Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com>
> ...
> 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.
> 

I tried adding a shortcut for `vim` by enabling "[x] Run in terminal" in the launcher settings. But it just doesn't launch.
Any reasons? 

Any way for adding terminal applications in the panel?

Regards.


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