Re: Bold/bright colors don't work as background.

[Keith Roberts <keith karsites net>]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Josh Rickmar wrote:

> To: Keith Roberts <keith karsites net>
> From: Josh Rickmar <joshua_rickmar eumx net>
> Subject: Re: Bold/bright colors don't work as background.
>
> On Thu, March 19, 2009 1:30 pm, Keith Roberts wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Josh Rickmar wrote:
> >
> >
> > > To: mc gnome org
> > > From: Josh Rickmar <joshua_rickmar eumx net>
> > > Subject: Bold/bright colors don't work as background.
> > >
> > >
> > > I am trying to create my own color scheme for Midnight Commander, but
> > > am having some trouble with the colors.  When setting the background
> > > color for "normal" (normal, dnormal, helpnormal, etc.), it seems to only
> > > work when using the "regular" version of the color, not the bold or
> > > bright variant.  For example, I want to set the background of my dialogs
> > >  (dnormal) to gray (the "bold" version of black), but it uses black
> > > instead.  Likewise, if I use "white" (the bright variant), then it will
> > > use "lightgray" instead (the regular terminal white).
> > >
> > > Is this a bug in mc, or this intentional?
> > >
> > >
> > > I am using Midnight Commander 4.6.2 built from FreeBSD ports.  It's
> > > currently built against ncurses, but if that is causing the problem, I
> > > can use a different library instead.
> >
> > Hi Josh. What OS are you running mc on?
> >
> >
> > Keith
>
> I'm using FreeBSD.

OK.

On Fedora 8 and higher I have had problems with colors in mc 
as well.

What fixed it for me was this:

# set the font to 16 colors for mc to work ok.
setfont lat1-16

You will need to restart mc for the setfont lat-16 command
to take effect.

To make the change permanent after a re-boot, fire up mc and 
edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n file to the following value

SYSFONT="lat1-16"

HTH

Keith Roberts

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