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.  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"

The default is white directories on a blue background.
If i do: mc -C directory=red, this does not do white directories
on a red background, but red directories on a blue background.

How would i get *white directory writing* on a *red background* ?
It is this background that comes out as light blue when using
mc in an xterm.

> 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.

I've already tried setting color0-15 in my ~/.Xsession file, but it
had no effect even after rebooting the pc. I tried your settings above,
but still no effect. .Xsession:

xsetroot -solid green4
xterm -sb -sl 256 -rightbar -title "Debian" -geometry 80x25 &
xclock -bg black -fg green -update 1 -digital -geometry 150x40-0+0 &

! xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults

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

exec fvwm2