Thread: [Fremantle Maemo5+Harmattan Maemo6] Midnight Commander
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Originally Posted by peterleinchen View Post
BUT
what I did miss was the missing keyboard. So on each click the vkb pops up over half the screen and makes your action result unreadable. You always have to dismiss the vkb.
Makes it hard to use.

Nevetheless muchos gracias.

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Now used it in portrait mode (not my preferred position ) and I have to say that way it is much more usable (screen is only half-overlaid by vkb, actions are seen immediately but I cannot type on that small vkb )
I have tried various terminals on the N9; Terminal, MTermite, FingerTerm, etc. but haven't found one that works well with mc.
I think one really needs a hardware keyboard for mc to be usable on the device.

This is one of the reasons I haven't included a launcher for Harmattan. Also, I don't want to hardcode the launcher to open mc with a particular terminal, and Maemo and Harmattan don't have 'x-terminal-emulator' alternatives. I'd rather users start their favourite terminal and then type 'mc' to launch it.

It does work well over ssh though.
 

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