<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 at 22:00, Rich Shepard <<a href="mailto:rshepard@appl-ecosys.com">rshepard@appl-ecosys.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">System: Lenovo ThinkPad T430 running Slackware64-15.0.<br>
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Midnight Commander (mc) is a dual-pane, text-mode file manager. When I<br>
invoke it in a virtual terminal it loads and displays as it does on my other<br>
network hosts. But, when I added it to a panel 2 launcher the same command,<br>
`/usr/bin/mc' locks the system. It does not display the application and<br>
neither mouse clicks or keyboard commands (other than ctrl-alt-F[n] which<br>
changes to a text console from the GUI. A system reboot is required to<br>
recover.<br>
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What might cause this freeze?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My guess is that MC is trying to read from stdin.</div><div><br></div><div>Try killing the process from the text console and see if that restores input in Xorg.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Olivier</div></div></div>