Re: Changing colors

[Russell <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > > > On a normal text console, if i do any of:
> > > >   mc -C yellow,green
> > > >   mc -C normal=yellow,green
> > > >   mc -c -C normal=yellow,green
> > > >
> > > > then i still get a blue background and grey/white text.
>
> That's the expected result for "mc -C yellow,green"
>
> > I just tried:  mc -C yellow,green today and it worked on a normal
> > console and in an xterm. Don't know why it didn't before.
>
> It doesn't work for me (CVS version of mc).  I mean, it has no effect.
> Unfortunately, there is no error message about invalid command line.

I made a typo. Should have been: "mc -C normal=yellow,green"
 
> > > xterm uses its own colors.  Read documentation for xterm to change
> > > them or use another terminal that supports palette switching, such as
> > > konsole and gnome-terminal.
> >
> > I've read the manuals in the /usr/doc/mc directory on debian (FAQ.gz)
> > and looked on the net, but there's nothing about setting the background
> > colour.
>
> 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.
 
> > mc --help-colors  gives a list of options, but nothing affects the
> > background colour of the left and right viewing panes. How can i
> > do this?
>
> If you mean "quick view", it is affected by the "normal" attribute.
> I used "mc -C normal=yellow,green" and took this screenshot:
> http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/quickview.png

I'm understanding the colour settings better now.
In http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/quickview.png, on the left
pane, the line with "/.." (and all other directories) are shown
in blue. How do i change that colour? (eg, to the background colour)