#1 2018-05-16 03:16:28

joes

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Registered: 2017-08-07

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Midnight Commander

I am using MC in Bunsenlabs Helium.
It's hard to read the menu entries: left, file, ... and the entries.
The color is white on green.
I've looked on the Net, but can't figure out how to change. Is there a tutorial available for this so I could change things?

Joe

arno

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Registered: 2016-03-06

Posts: 26

Re: Midnight Commander

Hello !!
Sorry....i'm french....You can change "apparence":
F9
option
apparence

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: Midnight Commander

Hi Joe, you could also try the "Hydrogen" theme that we include with Terminator (the stock terminal emulator), that is a bit more neutral than the Helium theme (IMO) and you may find it more readable.

I think the theme options are hidden away in the Preferences menu somewhere.

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brontosaurusrex

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: Midnight Commander

Also 'mc -b' shall present itself with black and white version.

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tknomanzr

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: Midnight Commander

Midnight Commander supports its own themes which is great because it uses the BL default terminal colors in a way which is simply hideous. We would want to edit ~/.config/mc/ini. Under colors we can specify MC's color scheme. Here is an example one I pulled from Github: https://gist.github.com/holms/5005629

[Colors]
base_color=
xterm-256color=
color_terminals=
base_color=linux:normal=white,black:marked=yellow,black:input=,green:menu=black:menusel=white:menuhot=red,:menuhotsel=black,red:dfocus=white,black:dhotnormal=white,black:dhotfocus=white,black:executable=,black:directory=white,black:link=white,black:device=white,black:special=white,black:core=,black:stalelink=red,black:editnormal=white,black 

This is just a quick thrown together example to point a way forward because it is obvious that there are other options in there. The xterm-256color option probably allows to specify colors similar to Xterm or URxvt but don't quote me on that. NOTE man mc provides a whole host of color configuration options under the Colors section.

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