Re: How Duplicate SourceForge Black on White Midnight Commander?

[Randy Kramer <rhkramer fast net>]

Pavel,

Thanks very much for your reply! 

I will do some digging and let you (via the list) know more.  Currently,
text on konsole is displayed as black on white except when I run MC. 
I'll dig into konsole and see if there is something more I can / must do
to force it to always be black on white.

I'll also look for the MC_COLOR_TABLE environment variable on
SourceForge (and at home).

I'll let you know what I find.

Randy Kramer

PS: Nothing new below -- just quoting your entire response.

Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Hi, Randy!
>
> > When I run Midnight Commander (version 4.5.42) on Konsole via SSH from
> > SourceForge, the text is black on a white background, and very easy for
> > me to read.
> >
> > I've been trying to get the same results running my local version of MC
> > (4.5.51) -- I've tried:
> >    * the -b option (which produces white (or less white) text on a black
> > background which is still hard to read)
>
> I don't have ssh access to Sourceforge, but the easiest solution would be
> to setup Konsole to always show black text on white background.  Then "mc
> -b" would do the trick.
>
> >    * I downloaded the mc.lib file from SourceForge (/usr/lib/mc), put it
> > in my /usr/lib/mc, and deleted (renamed) my ini file from ~/.mc, but I
> > still get the white text on blue background.
>
> mc.lib is irrelevant.  It is only used for the "learn key" feature.
> However, this limitation was documented in more recent versions of MC than
> the one you are using.
>
> > Can anybody explain why MC when run from SourceForge produces the black
> > text on white background, or how I can duplicate that on my MC?
>
> Maybe it has MC_COLOR_TABLE environment variable set?  If you are not
> running MC, what is the background and forground?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
>
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