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Topic: midnight commander, mc color

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martinschultze Offline

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Posted: Sep. 24 2004,11:46

I would like to use the midnight commander, but I can hardly read the text with the DSL color setting (text is grey, backgroud is black).
Therefore I would like to set the colors to the default values (white/blue).

My question:
How can I set the mc colors in DSL?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Martin

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Posted: Sep. 24 2004,12:53

If you look at the Midnight Commander FAQ, they talk about changing the colors. It doesn't look all that easy, but I hope it helps.

cbagger01

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Posted: Sep. 24 2004,21:38

I agree, the default colors are very hard to read.

Add my vote to the "please change the default MC colors for the next version of DSL" crowd.

mikshaw

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Posted: Sep. 24 2004,23:49

A simple way to make it readable is to use the command "mc -b". This removes all filetype-specific coloring, and should use whatever color you have set as foreground on your current terminal.

edit: This doesn't seem to work with xterm, but does with rxvt and aterm

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