On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Josh Rickmar wrote:
To: Keith Roberts <keith karsites net> From: Josh Rickmar <joshua_rickmar eumx net> Subject: Re: Bold/bright colors don't work as background. On Thu, March 19, 2009 1:30 pm, Keith Roberts wrote:On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Josh Rickmar wrote:To: mc gnome org From: Josh Rickmar <joshua_rickmar eumx net> Subject: Bold/bright colors don't work as background. I am trying to create my own color scheme for Midnight Commander, but am having some trouble with the colors. When setting the background color for "normal" (normal, dnormal, helpnormal, etc.), it seems to only work when using the "regular" version of the color, not the bold or bright variant. For example, I want to set the background of my dialogs (dnormal) to gray (the "bold" version of black), but it uses black instead. Likewise, if I use "white" (the bright variant), then it will use "lightgray" instead (the regular terminal white). Is this a bug in mc, or this intentional? I am using Midnight Commander 4.6.2 built from FreeBSD ports. It's currently built against ncurses, but if that is causing the problem, I can use a different library instead.Hi Josh. What OS are you running mc on? KeithI'm using FreeBSD.
OK.On Fedora 8 and higher I have had problems with colors in mc as well.
What fixed it for me was this: # set the font to 16 colors for mc to work ok. setfont lat1-16 You will need to restart mc for the setfont lat-16 command to take effect.To make the change permanent after a re-boot, fire up mc and edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n file to the following value
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