10:43 a.m.
short and to the point:
For the life of me I can't seem to find where the Midnight Commander
config is stored...
.mc is not there anymore under /home/username ??
Help please, I've got no more hair to pull... ;)
FC
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Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un
Acto Revolucionario
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3:31 a.m.
On 04/11/2012 05:43 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
short and to the point:
For the life of me I can't seem to find where the Midnight Commander
config is stored...
.mc is not there anymore under /home/username ??
Help please, I've got no more hair to pull... ;)
User dependent settings, so it must be in the home dir, but you
do not know where.
So, the "big gun" approach:
1) create a newuser
2) su -l newuser
3) delete everything in home (a few files)
4) launch mc and exit
5) have a look at what has been created in the home dir :-)
6) exit and remove the newuser
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11:14 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 09:59, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
find . -name .mc -type d
Thanks. Always forget the syntax to find and that it supports the dir attribute.
In the end, it had to do with complying with freedesktop rules, so I
guess it's a good think that long-term, all apps will start polluting
the root level of the users dir and instead put the config files one
or two files deep in a neat hierarchy.
FC
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10:48 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 08:50:09PM +0930, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 12:43 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> For the life of me I can't seem to find where the Midnight Commander
> config is stored...
> .mc is not there anymore under /home/username ??
Can't find something? Use the "locate" command to have the computer
find it for you. Even if you're not sure of the filename, try the
likely candidates, or use part of the file name. Then you can look
through the list of results.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I
read messages from the public lists.
Checked /etc/mc?
Terry
7:59 a.m.
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:47:20 -0300, FC (Fernando) wrote:
Tim,
I know about the locate command. I just thought it searched for
individual filenames, not path substrings. In the case of mc, one
thing is to look for "mc.ini" and another completely different to look
for "ini", which would likely produce a lot of results.
find | grep mc.ini
Even the more complex
find . -name .mc -type d
is just a very basic command. You don't need "locate".
6:59 a.m.
On 04/12/2012 07:47 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
Also, I had just installed mc so I don´t think the locate database
would have picked it up yet. And if I fired updatedb it´d have taken a
while, so it was easier for me to ask the list. Also, asking the list
is beneficial to someone else if the question-and-answer is later
indexed by Gurgle, to be later found by someone else in the same
situation as me.
As you can see I made a lot of considerations before deciding to ask here.
You do realize that by your logic there should be no reason for anyone to try to
determine the answers themselves?
Can't wait for updatedb to run...because it may be faster to type out an email and
then sit back and wait for an answer. :-) :-)
And, if I don't know something...then I'm sure someone else in the world
wouldn't it
either...so I may as well ask it and hope that that someone else doesn't think the
way I do and will google it instead of asking again. :-) :-)
--
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke
of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage
6:47 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 08:20, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Can't find something? Use the "locate" command to have
the computer
find it for you.
Tim,
I know about the locate command. I just thought it searched for
individual filenames, not path substrings. In the case of mc, one
thing is to look for "mc.ini" and another completely different to look
for "ini", which would likely produce a lot of results.
Also, I had just installed mc so I don´t think the locate database
would have picked it up yet. And if I fired updatedb it´d have taken a
while, so it was easier for me to ask the list. Also, asking the list
is beneficial to someone else if the question-and-answer is later
indexed by Gurgle, to be later found by someone else in the same
situation as me.
As you can see I made a lot of considerations before deciding to ask here.
:)
FC
6:20 a.m.
On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 12:43 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
For the life of me I can't seem to find where the Midnight
Commander
config is stored...
.mc is not there anymore under /home/username ??
Can't find something? Use the "locate" command to have the computer
find it for you. Even if you're not sure of the filename, try the
likely candidates, or use part of the file name. Then you can look
through the list of results.
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I
read messages from the public lists.
11:19 a.m.
On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 12:51 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:49, Michael Schwendt
<mschwendt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> ~/.config/mc/
> plus
> ~/.local/share/mc/
> for other files.
Thanks!. I' m curious as to when did this change happen? (surely wasnt
there in FC6 when I started with Fedora).
I guess the rationale was to stop the pollution in the home dir?
Presumably it's to follow the Free Desktop standard. See for example
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html
poc
11 a.m.
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:51:43 -0300, FC (Fernando) wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:49, Michael Schwendt
<mschwendt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> ~/.config/mc/
> plus
> ~/.local/share/mc/
> for other files.
Thanks!. I' m curious as to when did this change happen? (surely wasnt
there in FC6 when I started with Fedora).
I guess the rationale was to stop the pollution in the home dir?
/usr/share/doc/mc-4.8.1/NEWS
mentions it. ;-)
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10:51 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:49, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
~/.config/mc/
plus
~/.local/share/mc/
for other files.
Thanks!. I' m curious as to when did this change happen? (surely wasnt
there in FC6 when I started with Fedora).
I guess the rationale was to stop the pollution in the home dir?
FC
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During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
- George Orwell
10:49 a.m.
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:43:02 -0300, FC (Fernando) wrote:
short and to the point:
For the life of me I can't seem to find where the Midnight Commander
config is stored...
.mc is not there anymore under /home/username ??
Help please, I've got no more hair to pull... ;)
FC
~/.config/mc/
plus
~/.local/share/mc/
for other files.
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