Jason Pepas wrote: > > On Thursday 10 October 2002 10:02 pm, Russell wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > None of the command-line options of midnight commander > > (mc --help-colors) seems to have an effect. Is there > > something i'm missing? I really want to change the > > colours of mc in an xterm because somehow they change > > from the normal console colors. > > that's because xterm doesn't use the same colors as a standard linux tty > console. If you just want mc to look like it should, I would try to correct > the xterm's behavior, so that all console apps have the same color. > > I unfortunately have never figured out how to do this, because it was always > easier to just use a different term which did colors the same as the linux > console. > > open question to everyone: which does colors "correctly", xterm or the linux > console? And why does the one which does them incorrectyl choose to do so?
I think the linux console does correct colors, because the blue looks like a pure saturated rgb:0,0,255 blue. The xterm is a pale washed-out light blue, whereas red still displays as a pure red like the linux console. I fixed the problem by putting xterm*color4: blue into ~/.Xresources. I think xterm has a bug where the default blue is something other than rgb:0,0,255. See "man xterm" and search for color4. How can such a stupid bug go unnoticed for so long? To change foreground and background colours in midnight commander, see: mc --help-colors. I found another bug where the colour of executeable files can't be changed: mc -C execute=yellow,red Just to be sure of other colours in xterm, i put this into ~/.Xresources: xterm*color0: black xterm*color1: red xterm*color2: green xterm*color3: yellow xterm*color4: blue xterm*color5: magenta xterm*color6: cyan xterm*color7: white xterm*color8: black xterm*color9: red xterm*color10: green xterm*color11: yellow xterm*color12: blue xterm*color13: magenta xterm*color14: cyan xterm*color15: white These colours are defined in /etc/X11/rgb.txt. Another thing, to make your monitor colours nice and bright, adjust the gamma of your monitor with a site like: http://home.online.no/~ptrptr/back/monitor/gamma.htm http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=gamma+xf86config Put an entry like this (with suitable adjustments) into the monitor section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Gamma 2.4 2.3 2.5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
