Re: Changing colors

[Russell <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, i read all the docs dozen of times, but i just
didn't get it (too thick;). For some reason i thought
FORE,BACK only applied to the normal option, and all the
other options only permitted FORE. I actually tried
mc -C normal=yellow,green days ago. I know the instructions
are obvious now, but it would have helped much if someone
would have just said try mc -C directory=yellow,green  in
my questions about background colors. I couldn't live
without mc.

That said, why doesn't setting XTerm*color0-15 in ~/.Xresources
have any effect on mc in an xterm? Doing mc -C directory=yellow,blue
still gives a yuck light blue background. mc -C directory=#b21818,#b26818
doesn't have an effect in an xterm either.

Does anyone here actually get the same colors in an xterm as on
a normal 'linux' console?