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 5:13 pm, Keith Roberts wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Where do I need to put this? In my ~/.mc/ini ?  Because setfont isn't a
> command on FreeBSD...
>
> > To make the change permanent after a re-boot, fire up mc and
> > edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n file to the following value
>
> I don't have a sysconfig folder in either /etc or /usr/local/etc .
>
> > SYSFONT="lat1-16"

I'm not running FreeBSD Josh.

Maybe you could try a FreeBSD list or forum, and ask if it's 
possible to set the value for the system font?

Googling for:

FreeBSD set system font

returns some interesting matches :)

HTH

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts