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Vifm is locked after running executable file on Windows (I can't change directories in both panes). I couldn't find solution for this problem. Can you help me?

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If I understand correctly, you launch vifm and then pick executable file in it and press Enter or l? The result is that vifm window stops responding to keys at all or it just starts to behave differently? Does everything become normal after you close that application?

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I tried to reproduce the issue and saw the bug, thanks for reporting it. At the moment you can run executables using :!%c%i&. It's easier to bind it to a key (r for "run"):
nnoremap ,r :!%c%i&<cr>

I'll fix the bug and there will be an updated binary of development version, I'll post link here in case you'll want to use it (it has new features as well and thus is somewhat less tested).

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As is stated in the comments, this is a bug. Detection of graphical applications was broken since 0.9 by a seemingly unrelated change.

It's already fixed on master, Windows executables with this change and all other changes since 0.9.1 release are available here:

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Thank you. It's OK now.

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