[dba-Tech] Changing coloring scheme for Midnight Commander - the most pupular file manager on unix like systems

Salakhetdinov Shamil mcp2004 at mail.ru
Thu Apr 3 08:35:16 CDT 2014


 Hi All --

I have got subj:  http://www.midnight-commander.org/ (MC)

IMO it's a useful file manager (a la' NC) for *nix starters.
But I wanted to change MC's coloring scheme.

Here 

http://ajnasz.hu/blog/20080101/midnight-commander-coloring

they say that coloring scheme can be defined/changed in  ~/.mc/ini file. 
But on Ubuntu this ini file seems to be located at ~/.config/mc/ini

Have you ever used MC?
Have you ever tried to change its color scheme? - I have changed it to

[Colors]
base_color=lightgray,green:normal=green,default:selected=white,gray:marked=yellow,default:markselect=yellow,gray:directory=blue,default:executable=brightgreen,default:link=cyan,default:device=brightmagenta,default:special=lightgray,default:errors=red,default:reverse=green,default:gauge=green,default:input=white,gray:dnormal=green,gray:dfocus=brightgreen,gray:dhotnormal=cyan,gray:dhotfocus=brightcyan,gray:menu=green,default:menuhot=cyan,default:menusel=green,gray:menuhotsel=cyan,default:helpnormal=cyan,default:editnormal=green,default:editbold=blue,default:editmarked=gray,blue:stalelink=red,default

still I cannot say I like it.

And what is your preferred color scheme for MC? -- 
Салахетдинов Шамиль


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