mc midnightcommander default path

[Greyberry]

Hi,

 

how can i make a persistent default path for midnightcommander? I want it to start with "/mnt/user" preferably on both sides.

 

best regards

[Squid]

By default mc uses the current path as the default.  So you can "cd" to wherever you want to be prior to executing mc

 

Or, you can edit /root/.config/mc/panels.ini to suit (google is your friend)

 

Once you've got panels.ini working the way you like then you save the file to the flash drive and at boot time copy it back to the appropriate folder to make it persistent

[Greyberry]

Thank you for the hints.

 

I don't think panels.ini is capable to set both panels directories; at least i was not able to set the default dir of both panels via panels.ini.

 

I now added an alias in the /boot/config/go script, and hope the alias will persist:

alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh /mnt/user /mnt/user'

 

[JoergHH]

On 1/4/2021 at 11:26 AM, Greyberry said:

I now added an alias in the /boot/config/go script, and hope the alias will persist:

alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh /mnt/user /mnt/user'

And did it work or does it work that way?

[Greyberry]

I think it did work, but I am using Krusader for now.