[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 16:28:16 CDT 2014


 Hi Jim --

> ..and of course real men don't use GUIs.
Sure :)  (BTW, in MS Windows I do usually use Far Manager ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAR_Manager ) not Windows Explorer...)

Well, I'd use GUI - what is the usual way to setup and activate GUI shell/Window Manager for a hosted Linux VPS?
AFAIU I have to setup Linux GUI shell/Window Manager on a VPS - what are the most often used lightweight Linux GUI shell distributions for VPS? 
When I get such a Linux GUI shell/Window Manager up&running on my VPS, h ow do I run a remote Linux desktop in Windows? As described in the following article?

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/how-do-i-run-a-remote-linux-desktop-in-windows/

Thank you. Shamil

Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:36:25 -0600 (MDT) from Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>:
>Hi Shamil:
>
>Midnight Commander has been around since UNIX (SCO UNIX over twenty years ago...) and DOS days (used QDOS, a DOS variant of MC, which had the capabilities to prune and graft from/to the directory trees) and I have used it once or twice but until there was a GUI available... It is the best command line file manager there is and I understand there is a hundred different theme and patches around for it.
>
>Its main attributes are small memory requirements and speed of course. ...and of course real men don't use GUIs...just ask the Hyper-V server folks. ;-)
>
>Jim 
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Salakhetdinov Shamil" < mcp2004 at mail.ru >
>To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" < dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com >
>Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 6:35:16 AM
>Subject: [dba-Tech] Changing coloring scheme for Midnight Commander - the most pupular file manager on unix like systems
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> 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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