Hello everyone,
I have reinstalled the midnight commander (mc) under kde and have been using it for years. Now I can’t use the F 10 key to close the mc. I can’t find the setting for it.
I don’t use Midnight Commander, but have you looked in System Settings / Keyboard / Shortcuts to see if F10 (you can just type F10 in the search box) is assigned to some shortcut which interferes with Midnight Commander?
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Indeed, Plasma now binds F10 for itself by default — I believe it’s bound to invoking the menu, albeit that I’m not sure — in Plasma 6. So one will need to unbind F10 as a Plasma shortcut in order to be able to use it for applications that have been hard-coded for that shortcut.
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According to this topic: linux - Is there a way to change shortcuts in midnight commander? - Super User, all you need to do is the following:
cp /etc/mc/mc.keymap ~/.config/mc/
Then edit the key mappings of ~/.config/mc/mc.keymap as you like and make sure you save it when done. Note that there are a lot of instances of f10 hotkeys in the file, but “Quit” should be on line 14 of the mc.keymap file.
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It might be Plasma’s “fault” - or it might be just specific to Konsole (the Terminal emulator).
But that is indeed the very first thing I take care of in every DE (I can’t live without mc) -
this also happens in Gnome Terminal and in Xfce4 Terminal, but the setting is more intuitive to find.
xfce4-terminal has got a menu item for it in the advanced settings tab
and so does gnome-terminal
Konsole works differently and I can’t remember where I found and changed that setting.
But I sure did.
As a work-around until you find it you can just install and use urxvt or plain xterm - it doesn’t happen there.
Thanks to everyone for the support, it works! I deactivated F10 in the system settings in kwin. Then I opened the console and assigned the F10 key to closing the window. But then the console wanted to close when I pressed the F10 key and the mc was still running. So I deleted the assignment of F10 to closing the window. After that, the mc could be closed with F10. However, I have no explanation for this process.
This sounds like the explanation to me. 
Just unbind/disable the F10 - don’t assign it to something else.
Then mc can have it and act as you’d expect.
I really don’t know why people like Plasma so much - to me there are far too many options and they are not at all intuitive to find.
(my personal opinion, of course)
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They used to be, but the KDE developers, having been inspired by GNOME and Microsoft, decided to make it a bit more challenging for Plasma 6. 
I don’t know about Microsoft (I don’t use it)
but as for inspired by Gnome:
at least the options are all accessible without special extensions in KDE/Plasma
In Gnome it’s even more of a nightmare still - and it changes all the time, too.
(in my experience)
I used to like Gnome - a long time ago.
Some, or even most people, might need it - I don’t
and am happily staying with Xfce4 
Neither do I, but apparently most of the millennials at KDE do. 
Case in point, the double-click instead of a single-click for opening files — which used to be the default — was taken over from Windows and GNOME, which itself also took that over from Windows.
Nah, I could never bring myself to liking it, and I really dislike gtk. 
Horses for courses, different strokes for different folks, and all that jazz.
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Yup, I’m quite comfortable with it by now - F10 also pulls down the Firefox menu (so no need to feel sad that it’s not in GlobalMenu).
With Hindsight, it’s one of the (annoying) changes in Plasma which I actually find to be very good.
Knee jerking isn’t always the best reaction.
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