Changing colors

[Pavel Roskin]

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.

> 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.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin