Hi Lack of bold colours is a problem that I have come across with a number of recent Linux distributions, including RHEL clones, Fedora Core 4, etc. When using text mode tools such as Midnight Commander (which I put at the very top of the list of essential utilities to administer a server), I cannot get bold colours to work. So bold red and bold yellow come out looking a sort of murky brown, and highlighted files really don't show up properly. With FC4 I did manage to get some (but not all colours) to work in bold on the command line when I did a GUI install, but for server use I would prefer to have a totally text-based installation.
I have experimented with different motherboards and different display cards, but always find this problem affects command line applications with these recent Linux distributions. This is not a Midnight Commander problem as such - it is clearly the fault of the distributions in some way. However I find it extremely annoying, and I really don't want to start configuring a new server with a recent distribution of Linux until I can solve the problem. Older versions of Red Hat (up to 7.3) did not have this issue. Surprisingly I have not found any solutions by Googling or by checking the MC archives. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks for any help. Regards Jim Holland System Administrator MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
