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4294	Start a subshell in background	slajerek		"This is related to ticket #3580, not sure how to re-open tickets so I created a new one.

I have a similar problem, but it is not related to the solution described there and was not able to solve that problem. I see on other forums that people have similar problem so I suggest to anyway think about possible fix for this once for all and init subshell in background as described in ticket #3580 (copying here for a reference):

''It might worth to start the subshell on a background thread to be able to show the main UI faster. Then a rotating dash would be displayed in the command prompt and in Ctrl-O until the subshell is ready.
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In my case on macOS 10.15.7 when transitioned to ZSH the MC starts in around 6 seconds. This is totally not acceptable. The ZSH on its own starts in less than one second. The {{{ mc --nosubshell }}} starts MC instantly, but there's no subshell which is also not acceptable. Thus, there's something fishy with instantiation of subshell in the MC, may be related to the configuration - but actually, that is not the problem of the fact that subshell init takes long, but that it is not done in the background at startup.

"	enhancement	new	major	Future Releases	mc-core	master		subshell				no branch