Many times, I find it easier to launch mc and navigate to a directory to view a document (e.g., PDF in evince). Most of the time, I don't need mc any longer so I close it. This closes my document window, because it is a child of mc. I have to send mc to another XMonad workspace to move it out of the way, and I usually forget it there. I'm wondering if there's any way to set the parent of the child window to the root window (or init, or whatever would be appropriate) rather than mc, so I can close mc and continue working.
As a test, I followed the same procedure using nautilus. It worked as expected: Closing nautilus did not close the document window. I'd like to do the same with mc, but I'm unsure how (and my google fu isn't good enough to find a guide telling me how to do it). The extension file already opens the document viewer, and appends '&' to the command. And before I finished this email, I found nohup. It does exactly what I want, allows me to kill mc without killing the children windows. Hope this helps someone else. If there's a better way to do it, let me know. Trey _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc