On Monday 23 May 2016 08:45:49 phiebie@... wrote: > Konsole is started as normal user. In it is invoked the > midnight-commander. Keyboard-navigation and -keypresses are flawlessly > executed. The mouse-cursor moves if desired all over the screen. > Clicking *outside* the console starts the envisaged action on other > files, but *inside* the mc-konsole nothing happens at all when > clicking. gpm, konsole and mc all 3 are [ root:root 100755 ]. > When I however start the console, then su to root and invoke mc > everything works properly! > Where else should/could I look for the apparently missing > user-permissions? Thanks. > This has all the clues of needing to: cd to /home sudo chown -R your-user-name:your-user-name your-user-name Apparently something that resets things to be owned by root as been done in your /home/your-user-name directory tree. You should own EVERYTHING in your home directory. Running as root in your home directory is a bad idea... And as a bit of old school myself, I'm glad to see another mc user, its the best swiss army knife ever. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>