is there a way to change the default background colour?

[John Maclean]

So far I've been able to change the colour of text, but not the default, blue background.
jayeola at tp20$ mc -V

GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.1a
Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish, smbfs, undelfs
With builtin Editor
Using system-installed S-Lang library with terminfo database
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Data types: char 8 int 32 long 32 void * 32 off_t 64 ecs_char 8



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John Maclean
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