Specifiying a skin in ini

[Paul Marwick]

Andrew Borodin wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:04:08 +0100 Paul Marwick wrote:
>    
>> Is the directive position sensitive in the ini?
>>      
> Yes. The skin= key must be located in main [Midnight-Commander] section.
>
> I've tried to setup a skin in ~/.mc/ini using several ways:
>
> 1) skin=gotar
> 2) skin=gotar.ini
> 3) skin=/usr/share/mc/skins/gotar.ini
>
> Everything works fine for me.
>    

Strange. I've got this:

[Midnight-Commander]
skin=~/.mc/skins/nicedark

in my user ~/.mc/ini and that doesn't work either - I'm getting the 
default skin even as a normal user.
>> Are you interested in specific environmet variables?
>>      
> If you use "su" to be a root, you might get a home directory for user
> not for root:
>
> [andrew at myhost ~]$ su -c 'echo $HOME'
> Password:
> /home/andrew
> [andrew at myhost ~]$ su - -c 'echo $HOME'
> Password:
> /root
>    

Right. I'm reasonably sure that isn't the problem - I've tried logging 
into a console directly as root and get the same result.

I've tried this with my own 4.7.4 build and also with the standard 
Slackware version (20100509_git). Same problem with both versions. I'll 
have to build the latest stable version and see how that works. Only 
other thing I can think of is there is something different in Slackware 
or Slack derived distros that is upsetting it, which seems unlikely.

Paul.