[mc] mc background color

Martin Mísař misar at ath.cz
Thu Feb 19 06:11:51 UTC 2026


Hi,
you can change color profiles in MC settings - Options/Appearance/Skin 
or on some X terminal emulators you can tune color palette - for example 
on xfce4-terminal it is in Settings/Colors/Palette or something like 
that, where you can make better dark blue than default.
Best regards,
Martin

On 2/18/26 23:58, mi via mc wrote:
> Can we configure the background color of mc ?
>
> I have a X terminal color profile which does not work well with mc. For example, shell script comments are in a greyish-orange and hard to read on blue background.
>
> I would like to change the mc background to black, rather than modifying dozens of highlight items. I hope that would suffice. And there are no black font colors anywhere as far as i can see.
>



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