# Gnome Midnight Commander Documentation

Gregory
McLean

                gregm@comstar.net

1998
The GNOME Project - Gregory A. McLean

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## Introduction

### What is the Gnome Midnight Commander

The Gnome Midnight Commander (gmc) is the latest incarnation of the GNU Midnight Commander. It is a directory browser/file manager for Unix-like operating systems.

### About this document

This document is intended to explain the Gnome specific features of the Gnome Midnight Commander.

### Features of the Gnome Midnight Commander

List the features of gmc...

## Installation

In this chapter we will describe the various ways to get the Gnome Midnight Commander installed and working on your system. Also we will discuss how to get the latest versions.

### Getting the latest version

Where to get the latest stable version

### Installing with the source files

Describe the source installation steps.

### Installing pre-packaged binaries

Describe the binary install steps.

## Using gmc

Someone write this!

## Customizing gmc

Not happy with the way gmc does things or the looks of gmc, in this chapter we will show you all the customization options available to you.

### Window Manager Classes

#### Introduction

This section describes the various window manager classes that have been set on the windows and dialogs that gmc uses. It is intended to aid you in customizing your enviornment.

Where possible we have provided some example window manager configuration file snippets.

#### The classes

On all the desktop icons that gmc uses and displays the following window manager classes have been set on them.

- gmc

- desktop_icon

Some window managers do not understand either the Gnome window manager hints or the Motif window manager hints. They end up making a terrible mess of the desktop icons. To work around this problem you can do the following.

- FVWM and variants

  Style "desktop_icon" MinimalDecoration, CirculateSkip