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Yura Shinkarev
Asked: 2017-12-17 03:09:37 +0800 CST

More visible space in mc (Midnight Commander) for command lines

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I want more space as shown here:

image of monitor with midnight commander full screen

Default mc with active panels has only one line where the user can type commands, I want to see more console output without pressing ctrl + o pressing.

How can I get it?

midnight-commander

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Two options here:

    • Try to press Ctrl+O. And forget your FAR, VC and NC :)

    • It seems that functionality is already here: press F9 (or Options), select Layout and find Console output here. It works in native Linux console (plain VT, such as Ctrl+Alt+F1) on 12.04 LTS, 17.04, 17.10 and 18.04 LTS, but not on 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS. There are upstream bug and launchpad bug about that.

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