Re: Changing colors

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

> > 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.  Following settings make colors in xterm similar to those on the
Linux console:

XTerm*color0: #000000
XTerm*color1: #b21818
XTerm*color2: #18b218
XTerm*color3: #b26818
XTerm*color4: #1818b2
XTerm*color5: #b218b2
XTerm*color6: #18b2b2
XTerm*color7: #b2b2b2
XTerm*color8: #686868
XTerm*color9: #FF5454
XTerm*color10: #54FF54
XTerm*color11: #FFFF54
XTerm*color12: #5454FF
XTerm*color13: #FF54FF
XTerm*color14: #54FFFF
XTerm*color15: #FFFFFF

> 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)

"directory"

Next time please read the output of "mc --help-colors" more carefully.  
Note that some settings are undocumented for historic reasons, for example 
the editor colors, but you can find those settings in src/text.c.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin