> Many times, I find it easier to launch mc and navigate to a directory > to view a document (e.g., PDF in evince).
It's possible to navigate with `mc`, and then to close `mc` when you arrive, after you've captured the <FileName> with the mouse; then do `xpdf <MousedPaste>` My current `mc` keeps the current-dir of where it closes. Previous versions needed extra coding. > 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. Which is a failure. > I have to send mc to another XMonad workspace to move it out of the way,. > and I usually forget it there. If you opened xpdf from `mc`, why doesn't it show OVER `mc`? The processes should 'stack'. > 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. It's also bad to move `mc` to another work-space where it's 'detatched' for it's child in-terms-of your attention, because you may accidently close your `mc` and lose eg. your xpdf. > 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. Interesting. Could be usefull for other situations.. _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
