Function keys don't work in text-mode apps (Solved)

[Alienx]

About Bash, MP and curses text-mode applications: I had a similar problem with MC, the functions keys dont work.

then I found the problem was in /root/.bashrc

this line must be deleted: . /etc/profile

and let only the last two:

export HISTFILESIZE=2000
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

the problem with MC has gone

[GuestToo]

yes, the reason sourcing /etc/profile causes this problem is the line:

TERM=linux

MC does not work properly unless TERM=xterm
and it causes the problem with the line-drawing chars that MP uses

so if you change it to TERM=xterm it works ok

[BarryK]

So, could leave that line in .bashrc:

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 . /etc/profile
 export TERM=xterm
 export HISTFILESIZE=2000
 export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

the inserted TERM line will override the one in profile, or so I think.