On Monday 23 May 2016 08:45:49 phiebie@tele2.at wrote:
Konsole is started as normal user. In it is invoked the midnight-commander. Keyboard-navigation and -keypresses are flawlessly executed. The mouse-cursor moves if desired all over the screen. Clicking *outside* the console starts the envisaged action on other files, but *inside* the mc-konsole nothing happens at all when clicking. gpm, konsole and mc all 3 are [ root:root 100755 ]. When I however start the console, then su to root and invoke mc everything works properly! Where else should/could I look for the apparently missing user-permissions? Thanks.
This has all the clues of needing to: cd to /home sudo chown -R your-user-name:your-user-name your-user-name
Apparently something that resets things to be owned by root as been done in your /home/your-user-name directory tree. You should own EVERYTHING in your home directory. Running as root in your home directory is a bad idea...
And as a bit of old school myself, I'm glad to see another mc user, its the best swiss army knife ever.
Cheers, Gene Heskett