Re: Changing colors

[Russell <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > On a normal text console, if i do any of:
> >   mc -C yellow,green
> >   mc -C normal=yellow,green
> >   mc -c -C normal=yellow,green
> >
> > then i still get a blue background and grey/white text.
>
> "normal" affects only regular files.  You need to redefine more colors to
> change the background everywhere.

I just tried:  mc -C yellow,green  today and it worked on a normal console
and in an xterm. Don't know why it didn't before.
 
> > The same thing happens in an xterm, but the background is a light
> > steel-blue that i want to make darker. What am i doing wrong?
>
> xterm uses its own colors.  Read documentation for xterm to change them or
> use another terminal that supports palette switching, such as konsole and
> gnome-terminal.

I've read the manuals in the /usr/doc/mc directory on debian (FAQ.gz) and
looked on the net, but there's nothing about setting the background colour.

mc --help-colors  gives a list of options, but nothing affects the
background colour of the left and right viewing panes. How can i
do this?