Pavel Roskin wrote: > > Hello! > > > > > On a normal text console, if i do any of: > > > > mc -C yellow,green > > > > mc -C normal=yellow,green > > > > mc -c -C normal=yellow,green > > > > > > > > then i still get a blue background and grey/white text. > > That's the expected result for "mc -C yellow,green" > > > I just tried: mc -C yellow,green today and it worked on a normal > > console and in an xterm. Don't know why it didn't before. > > It doesn't work for me (CVS version of mc). I mean, it has no effect. > Unfortunately, there is no error message about invalid command line.
I made a typo. Should have been: "mc -C normal=yellow,green" > > > xterm uses its own colors. Read documentation for xterm to change > > > them or use another terminal that supports palette switching, such as > > > konsole and gnome-terminal. > > > > I've read the manuals in the /usr/doc/mc directory on debian (FAQ.gz) > > and looked on the net, but there's nothing about setting the background > > colour. > > Sometime it also helps to read the parts of the message you are quoting. > "man xterm" describes how to set standard colors. I've spent hours setting .Xresources and using editres to view and set various widget colour settings, but i think mc is getting its own colours from elsewhere. And anyway, i can't even set the background color of mc on a normal linux (non-x) console. > > mc --help-colors gives a list of options, but nothing affects the > > background colour of the left and right viewing panes. How can i > > do this? > > If you mean "quick view", it is affected by the "normal" attribute. > I used "mc -C normal=yellow,green" and took this screenshot: > http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/quickview.png I'm understanding the colour settings better now. In http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/quickview.png, on the left pane, the line with "/.." (and all other directories) are shown in blue. How do i change that colour? (eg, to the background colour) _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
