no subshell in mc with screen

Frédéric L. W. Meunier lists1 at pervalidus.net
Sat Jan 31 18:43:27 UTC 2004


On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, David E wrote:

> I'm using screen 4.00.01, and when I try to 'ctrl-o' in mc, I get this
> message: "Not an xterm or Linux console; the panels cannot be toggled",
> the $TERM variable says "screen", I changed it to xterm and tried again,
> this time it changes but there's no subshell, just a blank screen.
> Any idea how to fix this?

So, you're running it under screen, but on which OS ? Windows
through Cygwin, FreeBSD, Linux ?

See
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2004-January/msg00032.html

As I reported, it works on Linux but not Cygwin and FreeBSD. I
really thought it'd on FreeBSD.

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