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MC (GNU Midnight Commander) is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager and a clone of Norton Commander. It was started by Miguel de Icaza in 1994.

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Slow start of Midnight Commander

Is there any way to prevent mc from taking 10-30 seconds to open?
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Why does F10 in gnome-terminal open the right-click menu?

I am running Fedora 17 gnome (shell) 3 and gnome terminal 3.4.1.1. I am a user of both gnome-terminal and mc(Midnight Commander). As default gnome-terminal has always used F10 (which I need while ...
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How to set Midnight Commander as the default File Manager?

I want graphical applications such as transmission-gtk and Firefox to open up directories with Midnight Commander through new instances of my default terminal emulator running on Debian. I've noticed ...
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simplest possible pager

In mc (midnight commander), I can define custom command for viewing files, ie: shell/i/.jpg Open=gpicview %f View=file %f | less The command file %f has to be piped to a pager. I am using ...
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How to set default editor/viewer for Midnight Commander to Sublime

The question is quite straightforward, so no further description is needed according to me. I just add that I am running Ubuntu 13.04. Any help is welcomed.
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How to connect through sftp to a non-standard port on Midnight Commander?

In Midnight Commander one can make an SFTP connection to a remote machine using: cd #sh:[email protected]:/home/username/ How can this be done when the remote machine is using a non-standard ...
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How do I *completely* disable the Ctrl-O shortcut in Midnight Commander?

I like using both Midnight Commander and Vim. In Vim, Ctrl-O is the "go to previous position" command, and in MC, by default, it toggles between the shell and the panel. I would like to be able to ...
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can I cd or use hot directory in shell link in mc?

can I use hot directory or cd inside shell link in mc? I access about 40 linux boxes via shell link that have the same dir /var/lib/edumate/backup how can I access this directory without ...
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mouse in gnome-terminal

how to set up mouse in terminal window? when i click on midnight commander captions i get raw data from mouse printed as characters in terminal and any running progs don't understand mouses clicks. I ...
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rxvt-unicode + mc - strange characters in root shell only

Using rxvt-unicode-9.11 and mc-4.7.5.2, and using zsh-4.3.11 as my login shell, I find that I get strange characters, eg â instead of lines being drawn. Interestingly however, launching urxvt from ...
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