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#31 Post by foxpup »

musher0 wrote: Nah, not Spring, not yet! Not here anyway!

I gather you'd be located in Italy or Spain where Spring starts early?
No, not around the Med, I live near the Northsea.
Wednesday was a rare day. Cold and foggy days are normal now. Spring is not near here neither.
But even 40 centimeters of snow will eventually melt!
Well, here we have to wait for a decade to see that amount of snow.

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Re: 256 colors

#32 Post by musher0 »

foxpup wrote:Hey musher0

I've been fiddling with mc again.
I just got 256 colors support installing rxvt-unicode-256color package. I took it from debian jessie, as I always do for Tahr.
I had to add libperl5.20 as well. ncurses-term_5.9 was mentionned as dep, but not reported as such by the ppm. I added it anyway because I had to add libncursesw5 before. (I edited a previous message about the 3 links and added this.)
The 256color skins are very nice, dark on white.
Hi foxpup!

That's great news!

Would you have the URL's for those packages, please?
And a screen shot, perhaps? I'm eager to see the result.

TIA
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Re: 256 colors

#33 Post by foxpup »

musher0 wrote: Would you have the URL's for those packages, please?
And a screen shot, perhaps? I'm eager to see the result.
I just take them from the debian packages site.
For rxvt-unicode-256color you find links here: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/rxvt ... e-256color

I cannot find it in the slackware packages. Maybe the patch is already in the rxvt package from slackware and you just have to enable it in .terminfo? To be honnest, I do not know if I make any sense here. I've not used slack up till now.

Some screenshots:
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#34 Post by Colonel Panic »

Thanks fpr this one! I've installed it and am using it now (in EmSee Ultron).
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#35 Post by musher0 »

@Colonel Paniic:

My pleasure!


@foxpup:

Thanks for the URL of the 256 colors urxvt and for the screenshots!


BFN
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Re: 256 colors

#36 Post by musher0 »

foxpup wrote:(...) I cannot find it in the slackware packages. Maybe the patch is already in the rxvt package from slackware and you just have to enable it in .terminfo? To be honnest, I do not know if I make any sense here. I've not used slack up till now.(...)
Sometimes one can use a deb package in a slackware environment and provide the
missing dependencies if any.
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Re: 256 colors

#37 Post by foxpup »

musher0 wrote: Sometimes one can use a deb package in a slackware environment and provide the missing dependencies if any.
I guessed so: I occasionally installed something from slack or even took a lib from a rpm.

But when I googled about urxvt 256colors I got the impression that rxvt in slackware is compiled differently and the 256 colors just have to be turned on. The deb for 256 colors has the same source as plain rxvt. But as I said, I am not at home in slack.

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#38 Post by musher0 »

Edited Nov. 19 2017.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Hello all.

MC-4.8.19 is available as archive mc-4.8.19_exec.pet from
http://augras.eu/puppy_linux/?dir=mushe ... stFichiers.
Built on and for xenialPup-7. Should work on DPupStretch-7 also.
(Above paragrah edited Febr. 23, 2018.)

For those of you who know French, there is a discussion about it starting here.

BFN.
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mc-4.8.20-i486.pet 30-Nov-2017 10:38 2.4M

#39 Post by s-kami »

New version, made by nocsak on LX7 Puppy - precise series
S-lang dependency there
mc-4.8.20-i486.pet 30-Nov-2017 10:38 2.4M

http://skamilinux.hu/nocsak/pet_LX7/midnight_commander/
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Midnight commander has spanish commands.

#40 Post by hamoudoudou »

one could believe all commands are in English but he is wrong. Midnight commanders has spanish commands.So people can undestand easier how to practice.
Replace old Topic 2013 here
s-kami provides list of commands and explanations if needed.

hamoudoudou

ux-commander is the file-manager

#41 Post by hamoudoudou »

s-kami tux-commander is the file-manager delivered by your Hungarian colleagues in Artfulpup HU Midnight-Commander and Tux commander are the same, aren't they ?
But they speak magyar :!: that we don't learn in our schools... :?
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#42 Post by s-kami »

Hello!

Yes and no.
Both of them are commanders.

The midnight commander is a famous and oldest Norton Commander clone for linux and all unix based systems.
Runs in terminal, so it is sometimes called cli commander --> command line interface commander.

Tux commander a new graphical commander but is was not developed anyway so it is not feature rich.

The MC is the best for terminal, console work, Tux commander is for beginners.

I may suggest Double Commander is for everyone!

https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/

Dowload, unpack and use... so simple and fullfeatured...
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#43 Post by musher0 »

@s-kami:

Easy to use perhaps, but it is still 7 Mg's big!!! :lol:
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#44 Post by hamoudoudou »

tuxcmd_0.6.70+dfsg-2|tuxcmd|0.6.70+dfsg-2||Filesystem;filemanager|1901K|pool/universe/t/tuxcmd|tuxcmd_0.6.70+dfsg-2_i386.deb|+libatk1.0-0&ge1.12.4,+libc6&ge2.3.6-6,+libcairo2&ge1.2.4,+libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0&ge2.22.0,+libglib2.0-0&ge2.35.9,+libgtk2.0-0&ge2.8.0,+libpango1.0-0&ge1.14.0|twin-panel commander-style file manager using GTK+ 2|ubuntu|artful|

Tux-commander is much easier than DOS

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#45 Post by musher0 »

Hello all.

i have just compiled mc-4.8.22 for slacko/slackster-700.
Un-tested on other Pups.

The formula I have used for compilation is

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Compilation formula
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-static=no --sysconfdir=/etc \ 
--enable-charset --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-mclib --enable-aspell \
--enable-vfs-undelfs --with-gnu-ld --with-x

Summary of compilation, given by the "configure" command:
  Assertions:                 yes
  Unit tests:                 no ('Check' testing framework not found)
  File system:                Midnight Commander Virtual Filesystem
                              cpio, extfs, fish, ftp, sfs, sftp, tar, undelfs
  Screen library:             S-Lang
  Mouse support:              gpm and xterm
  X11 events support:         yes
  With subshell support:      yes
  With background operations: yes
  Internal editor:            yes with aspell support
  Diff viewer:                yes
  Support for charset:        yes
  Search type:                glib-regexp
I found the various elements of this formula at the Linux-from-Scratch
site and in the mc docs.

In no order:
-- It has a mc.desktop file and and mc.sh script so it can be started
from the WM menu.
-- I have put all the localizations in a NLS pet.
-- I have added ~ 60 Kb's worth of "skins" from various sources,
including 2-3 that allow a very nive transparency effect (IMO).

You can download the exec of the latest mc (as of this writing) from:
http://augras.eu/puppy_linux/musher0/Sl ... PupLin.pet
and the substantial locales package from
http://augras.eu/puppy_linux/musher0/Sl ... in_NLS.pet

The index in the OP has been edited.

Enjoy!
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#46 Post by rufwoof »

Just noticed, at least in my voidlinux mc 4.8.23 version http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 78#1035078, that 'undelete' is no longer available :(

Otherwise working really well. Just to note that when run within a terminal screen within X you can use the mouse to control it. My voidlinux setup uses tilda as the terminal so shift-ctrl C to copy (V to paste) all work fine, as does the right click context cut/paste options. Another nice feature of tilda is that you can hover the mouse over a url link and it will underline, clicking it opens the link in chrome (or whatever). Similarly clicking a .mp4 file for instance (or pressing enter) in mc will open the file in vlc (or whatever file association you set). I tend to keep all my bookmarks in a text file and display that within a terminal session so it's easily edited whilst all of the links are clickable.

Once you're familiar with mc its very functional. Its commonly available also, and works well whether you're running it locally or remotely.

I have tilda terminal set to F1 (toggles show/hide) and run a tui (ncurses text user interface) in one tilda tab so other commands are more easily opened when just using the mouse. mc as the file manager, skippy for window switcher, xlunch for program launcher is a great combination IMO. Works well whether you're predominately using the mouse ... or predominately using the keyboard. Does involve a learning curve, but you're soon running things intuitively/quickly and at that point persistence pays off and rox/other file managers seem like hard work by comparison.
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#47 Post by rufwoof »

Under wiaks voidlinux builds I didn't even have rox installed, was just using mc. However I've just installed rox as a form of image preview option within mc

Within mc.ext I've set all image formats to a Include (common) option and where that common option has

View=rox %d

So in mc, clicking View or pressing F3 (View) whilst a image file format is highlighted opens up rox for that entire folder. In rox I've set large thumbnails and Display/Show Thumbnails. And then used Display/Save Current Display Settings ... so that rox starts with those options in that folder by default every time. I only have a few folder that contain images so I repeated that for those other folders. Set rox's Run Action for image files (MIME types) and you're good to go.

So now in mc, in a folder with images opening View results in rox showing the large scale thumbnails for all of the images, and clicking any one does the action associated in rox (such as open mtpaint) :)
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[url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1028256#1028256][size=75]Fatdog multi-session usb[/url][/size]
[size=75][url=https://hashbang.sh]echo url|sed -e 's/^/(c/' -e 's/$/ hashbang.sh)/'|sh[/url][/size]

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#48 Post by musher0 »

As well, one could set mc to use qiv or other image viewer for this purpose.
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