Re: Changing colors

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

Hello!

> > > 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.

$ mc --help-colors | sed -n 1p
--colors KEYWORD={FORE},{BACK}

This is meant to say that foreground is specified before comma, background
is after comma.  I know, a lot of user-visible texts in mc are too
technical for the modern users.  Sorry for that.

> 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:

One more time:
http://www.google.com/search?q=xterm+RGB+color

Follow the first link (just in case it changes: 
http://www.jbisbee.com/linux/colors/)

I'm not going to answer you anymore - you don't do any research and don't 
even read my replies.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin