On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 19:41:17 -0500 (CDT) Theodore Kilgore wrote: > > and why do I get a black screen with this mysterious message at the bottom > when I am attempting to play a WAV file in MC running in a terminal (not > in X!)? And, of course, I just get this message, no music. What in the > world is happening, here?
MC supports system-wide file bindings using xdg-open. > Just upgraded to Slackware Current on my old eeepc netbook, decided to > play a piece of music afterward to relax, and I confronted this. > > I looked into the extension editor, and it says about wav files and other > sound files that it follows what is in /usr/libexec/mc/ext.d/sound.sh > > That file does not seem to contain anything of the kind. It says it is > going to use "play" in the terminal (which is what I expected) and it says > it wants to use "xmms" in X. Look at the end of sound.sh: 86 open) 87 "${MC_XDG_OPEN}" "${MC_EXT_FILENAME}" 2>/dev/null || \ 88 do_open_action "${filetype}" To disable xdg-open in mc, you can define MC_XDG_OPEN=/bin/false. -- Andrew _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc