(and what the man page said…)

…this is great, but what does it MEAN? Exactly how does one “source” the script or whatever? How does one stay in the actual path after closing mc?

I run all of the bash scripts from the bin directory (is that what “sourcing” means?) but nothing changes.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who needs a little help beyond the man page.

Does anybody know, how can I stay in actual path, after closing mc

See man-page:

-P file, –printwd=file

Print the last working directory to the specified file. This option is not meant to be used directly. Instead, it’s used from a special shell script that automatically changes the current directory of the shell to the last directory the Midnight Commander was in. Source the file /usr/share/mc/bin/mc.sh (bash and zsh users) or /usr/share/mc/bin/mc.csh (tcsh users) respectively to define mc as an alias to the appropriate shell script.

Very good article - I hope all next articles will good, like this.

Using Ctrl-o to hide panels, or “shell out” leaves nothing but the disembodied command prompt on the “desktop.” Execute a command that produces abundant text in stdout and the screen fills with scrolling text all while you see your foolish “trash can” and other desktop icons behind.

Here’s how:

in ~/.mc/ini copy and paste this -

[Colors]
base_color=normal=white,default:directory=white,default:marked=yellow,default:selected=gray,white:ex
ecutable=brightgreen,default:link=lightgray,default:stalelink=brightred,default:special=brightblue,d
efault:device=magenta,default:editnormal=white,default

and create a launcher or a keybinding or script or whatever, to do this -

Eterm –trans –borderless –scrollbar off –buttonbar off –geometry 100×44+185+65 –font 10×20 –foreground-color white -e mc

You WILL be amused.

Frank

/usr/bin/mc
logout

to /etc/skel/.bash_profile

Thus, MC starts automatically for new users.

I found out, that this is “less scary” than plain bash prompt for newbie users. Advanced users are free to remove this from their own ~/.bash_profile