Re: Changing colors

[Russell <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> It's not widget color settings.  It's color0-color15.  I thought you would
> find it...

I've tried various terminals (in an xterm) for the TERM and TERMINFO
environment variables, but i either get the same colours, or else just
get black and white. Various terminfos are in /usr/share/terminfo/x