Specifiying a skin in ini

[Paul Marwick]

Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 11:38 +0100, Paul Marwick wrote:
>
>    
>> Strange. I've got this:
>>
>> [Midnight-Commander]
>> skin=~/.mc/skins/nicedark
>>      
> skin=/home/zyv/.mc/whatever/nicedark.ini works perfectly for me.
>    

I've now got this:

skin=/home/tigger/.mc/skins/nicedark.ini

And I'm still getting the default skin, not nicedark.
> Why do you think that ~ gonna get expanded??? Did you pay attention to
> the paths in the example provided by Andrew?
>    

Yes. I've now tried every variant I can think of, and none of them work, 
other than the command line switch. In the same way, specifying the full 
path to /usr/share/mc/skins also fails for me.

In /root/.mc/ini, I have this:

skin=/usr/share/mc/skins/gotar.ini

:( still doesn't work. MC started without arguments by root (using 
either su -  or logging into a console as root) still loads the default 
skin.

 > I hope you are not editing ~/.mc/ini with mcedit & autosave on?

I never leave autosave on, and in each instance, just to be sure, I've 
exited MC and used nano to edit ini.

Paul.