Specifiying a skin in ini

[Paul Marwick]

Sorry, looks as though my last reply has gone missing somewhere....

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.
>
> Why do you think that ~ gonna get expanded??? Did you pay attention to
> the paths in the example provided by Andrew?
>    

Sorry, I've tried both ways. I did expect the ~/ to be expanded, if only 
on the basis that the examples in the help file are done that way. 
However, in my setup, it makes no difference how I specify it - using ~/ 
or /home/user/etc.... Still doesn't work.
> I hope you are not editing ~/.mc/ini with mcedit&  autosave on?
>    

I never use autosave. Nonetheless, I've been editing it with MC closed 
and using nano. I've had this in my ~/.mc/ini for some time now:

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

It still comes up with the default skin, not the selected one.

I've also tried setting the environment variable:

export MC_SKIN='gotar'

in a script to start MC. That works without problems. In my systems (all 
Slack or slack-derived), the ini setting simply does not work.

Paul.