mouse doesnt work inside tmux for MC ( midnight commander)

[koumdros]

mouse doesnt work for MC under tmux after bash-it installation

OS: centos 6.8
brand new user, bash it installed with a rather spartan assortment of aliases + plugins + completions, among them those for tmux

I installed bash-it just after creating the user, so he had just the original dot files
bash-it enable alias curl git tmux vim vagrant
bash-it enable completion defaults dirs git pip ssh system tmux todo vagrant virtualbox
bash-it enable plugin dirs explain extract git history plenv ssh tmux

tmux is "out-of-thebox" ,. ie there is no .tmux.conf

mc has mouse support outside of tmux., but when I enter tmux and then launch MC mouse doenst work

extra: just realized function keys that require interactivity ( say F2 to configure htop) dont work either inside tmux now.

[nwinkler]

Does this work without Bash-it? I honestly don't know, since I don't use mc or tmux...

[koumdros]

sorry for the delay, crisis at work then vacations..
it worked before bash-it , when i was on "vanilla" bash environment..

[VladimirReshetnikov]

I had the same problem, but fixed it by running mc as mc -x (this sets TERM variable to screen).

[nwinkler]

@VladimirReshetnikov Nice find! Does it make sense to alias mc to mc -x to make this always work? We could add this to the tmux plugin to ensure this works if tmux is used.

[NoahGorny]

This issue is very stale, so I close it. Thanks for contributing and posting!

[MurzNN]

Can the -x mode cam be force enabled via .config/mc/ini file? I even can't see -x in options list via mc --help for understand what it is doing:

# mc --help                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [13/13]
Usage:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
  mc [OPTION…] [this_dir] [other_panel_dir]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.24                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Help Options:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
  -h, --help                Show help options                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
  --help-all                Show all help options                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
  --help-terminal           Terminal options                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  --help-color              Color options                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Application Options:
  -V, --version             Displays the current version
  -f, --datadir             Print data directory
  -F, --datadir-info        Print extended info about used data directories
  --configure-options       Print configure options
  -P, --printwd=<file>      Print last working directory to specified file
  -U, --subshell            Enables subshell support (default)
  -u, --nosubshell          Disables subshell support
  -l, --ftplog=<file>       Log ftp dialog to specified file
  -v, --view=<file>         Launches the file viewer on a file
  -e, --edit=<file> ...     Edit files

[LordJakson]

As mentioned in the help there is a --help-all command

# mc --help-all
Usage:
  mc [OPTION…] [+number] [this_dir] [other_panel_dir]
 +number - Set initial line number for the internal editor

GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.7

Help Options:
  -h, --help                     Show help options
  --help-all                     Show all help options
  --help-terminal                Terminal options
  --help-color                   Color options

Terminal options
  -x, --xterm                    Forces xterm features
  -X, --no-x11                   Disable X11 support
  -g, --oldmouse                 Tries to use an old highlight mouse tracking
  -d, --nomouse                  Disable mouse support in text version
  -t, --termcap                  Tries to use termcap instead of terminfo
  -s, --slow                     To run on slow terminals
  -a, --stickchars               Use stickchars to draw
  -k, --resetsoft                Resets soft keys on HP terminals
  -K, --keymap=<file>            Load definitions of key bindings from specified file
  --nokeymap                     Don't load definitions of key bindings from file, use defaults

--colors KEYWORD={FORE},{BACK},{ATTR}:KEYWORD2=...

{FORE}, {BACK} and {ATTR} can be omitted, and the default will be used

 Keywords:
   Global:       errors, disabled, reverse, gauge, header
                 input, inputmark, inputunchanged, commandlinemark
                 bbarhotkey, bbarbutton, statusbar
   File display: normal, selected, marked, markselect
   Dialog boxes: dnormal, dfocus, dhotnormal, dhotfocus, errdhotnormal,
                 errdhotfocus
   Menus:        menunormal, menuhot, menusel, menuhotsel, menuinactive
   Popup menus:  pmenunormal, pmenusel, pmenutitle
   Editor:       editnormal, editbold, editmarked, editwhitespace,
                 editlinestate, editbg, editframe, editframeactive
                 editframedrag
   Viewer:       viewbold, viewunderline, viewselected
   Help:         helpnormal, helpitalic, helpbold, helplink, helpslink

Standard Colors:
   black, gray, red, brightred, green, brightgreen, brown,
   yellow, blue, brightblue, magenta, brightmagenta, cyan,
   brightcyan, lightgray and white

Extended colors, when 256 colors are available:
   color16 to color255, or rgb000 to rgb555 and gray0 to gray23

Attributes:
   bold, underline, reverse, blink; append more with '+'

  -b, --nocolor                  Requests to run in black and white
  -c, --color                    Request to run in color mode
  -C, --colors=<string>          Specifies a color configuration
  -S, --skin=<string>            Show mc with specified skin

Application Options:
  -V, --version                  Displays the current version
  -f, --datadir                  Print data directory
  -F, --datadir-info             Print extended info about used data directories
  --configure-options            Print configure options
  -P, --printwd=<file>           Print last working directory to specified file
  -U, --subshell                 Enables subshell support (default)
  -u, --nosubshell               Disables subshell support
  -l, --ftplog=<file>            Log ftp dialog to specified file
  -D, --debuglevel=<integer>     Set debug level
  -v, --view=<file>              Launches the file viewer on a file
  -e, --edit=<file> ...          Edit files

Please send any bug reports (including the output of `mc -V')
as tickets at www.midnight-commander.org