Bold/bright colors don't work as background.

Andrew Borodin aborodin at vmail.ru
Wed Apr 1 07:13:08 UTC 2009


On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:32:15 -0400 (EDT) "Josh Rickmar" wrote:
> I am trying to create my own color scheme for Midnight Commander, but am
> having some trouble with the colors.  When setting the background color
> for "normal" (normal, dnormal, helpnormal, etc.), it seems to only work
> when using the "regular" version of the color, not the bold or bright
> variant.

AFAIK, most terminals support "regular" colors only as s background.
Look at http://www.s-lang.org/doc/html/cslang-8.html, section
"Setting Character Attributes"
 
> I am using Midnight Commander 4.6.2 built from FreeBSD ports.  It's
> currently built against ncurses, but if that is causing the problem, I can
> use a different library instead.

I think, ncurses library behaves as s-lang one.

-- 
Regards,
Andrew.



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