Midnight Commander – Troubleshooting Slow Start

Is there any way to prevent mc from taking 10-30 seconds to open?

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It works for me now. I am using

GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.21

strace wait on long time

connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(6011),
  sin_addr=inet_addr("x.x.x.x")}, 16) = ? ERESTARTSYS
  (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set)'

I tried this:

# hostname

use this for /etc/hosts:

nameofhost=hostname

add this $nameofhost to the /etc/hosts on line starting with

127.0.0.1 localhost ... $nameofhost

Cheers!

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Does mc (Midnight Commander) have favourites for directories

In MC favourites or bookmarks are stored in the hotlist directory.

Hotlist
The Directory hotlist command shows the labels of the directories in the directory hotlist. The Midnight Commander will change to the directory corresponding to the selected label. From the hotlist dialog, you can remove already created label/directory pairs and add new ones. To add new directories quickly, you can use the Add to hotlist command (Ctl+x,h), which adds the current directory into the directory hotlist, asking just for the label for the directory.

This makes cd to often used directories faster. You may consider using the CDPATH variable as described in internal cd command description. [1]

You can also use the hotlist to store frequently accessed ftp sites: if you access a site regularly, add it to your directory hotlist for faster access. Go to Command menu - Directory Hotlist - add by either typing it in, or if you are connected in a panel already, simply Add Current. Access the list with Ctl+\.[2]

Midnight Commander config dir location startup option

That turned out to be simpler as one might think. MC_HOME variable can be set to alternative path prior to starting mc. Man pages are not something you can find the answer right away =)

here's how it works: - usual way

[jsmith@wstation5 ~]$ mc -F
Root directory: /home/jsmith

[System data]
<skipped>

[User data]
    Config directory: /home/jsmith/.config/mc/
    Data directory:   /home/jsmith/.local/share/mc/
        skins:          /home/jsmith/.local/share/mc/skins/
        extfs.d:        /home/jsmith/.local/share/mc/extfs.d/
        fish:           /home/jsmith/.local/share/mc/fish/
        mcedit macros:  /home/jsmith/.local/share/mc/mc.macros
        mcedit external macros: /home/jsmith/.local/share/mc/mcedit/macros.d/macro.*
    Cache directory:  /home/jsmith/.cache/mc/

and the alternative way:

[jsmith@wstation5 ~]$ MC_HOME=/tmp/MCHOME mc -F
Root directory: /tmp/MCHOME

[System data]
<skipped>    

[User data]
    Config directory: /tmp/MCHOME/.config/mc/
    Data directory:   /tmp/MCHOME/.local/share/mc/
        skins:          /tmp/MCHOME/.local/share/mc/skins/
        extfs.d:        /tmp/MCHOME/.local/share/mc/extfs.d/
        fish:           /tmp/MCHOME/.local/share/mc/fish/
        mcedit macros:  /tmp/MCHOME/.local/share/mc/mc.macros
        mcedit external macros: /tmp/MCHOME/.local/share/mc/mcedit/macros.d/macro.*
    Cache directory:  /tmp/MCHOME/.cache/mc/

Use case of this feature:

You have to share the same user name on remote server (access can be distiguished by rsa keys) and want to use your favorite mc configration w/o overwritting it. Concurrent sessions do not interfere each other.

This works well as a part of sshrc-approach described in https://github.com/Russell91/sshrc

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