Colors
The Midnight Commander will try to detect if your terminal supports
color using the terminal database and your terminal name. Sometimes it
gets confused, so you may force color mode or disable color mode using
the -c and -b flag respectively.
If the program is compiled with the Slang screen manager instead of
ncurses, it will also check the variable COLORTERM, if it is set, it
has the same effect as the -c flag.
You may specify terminals that always force color mode by adding the
color_terminals variable to the Colors section of the initialization
file. This will prevent the Midnight Commander from trying to detect
if your terminal supports color. Example:
[Colors]
color_terminals=linux,xterm
color_terminals=terminal-name1,terminal-name2...
The program can be compiled with both ncurses and slang, ncurses does
not provide a way to force color mode: ncurses uses just the informa-
tion in the terminal database.
The Midnight Commander provides a way to change the default colors.
Currently the colors are configured using the environment variable
MC_COLOR_TABLE or the Colors section in the initialization file.
In the Colors section, the default color map is loaded from the
base_color variable. You can specify an alternate color map for a ter-
minal by using the terminal name as the key in this section. Example:
[Colors]
base_color=
xterm=menu=magenta:marked=,magenta:markselect=,red
The format for the color definition is:
<keyword>=<foregroundcolor>,<backgroundcolor>:<keyword>= ...
The colors are optional, and the keywords are: normal, selected,
marked, markselect, errors, input, reverse, gauge. Menu colors are:
menu, menusel, menuhot, menuhotsel. Dialog colors are: dnormal, dfo-
cus, dhotnormal, dhotfocus. Help colors are: helpnormal, helpitalic,
helpbold, helplink, helpslink. Viewer color is: viewunderline. Spe-
cial highlighting colors are: executable, directory, link, stalelink,
device, special, core. Editor colors are: editnormal, editbold, edit-
marked.
input determines the color of input lines used in query dialogs.
gauge determines the color of the filled part of the progress bar
(gauge), which is used to show the user the progress of file opera-
tions, such as copying.
The dialog boxes use the following colors: dnormal is used for the nor-
mal text, dfocus is the color used for the currently selected compo-
nent, dhotnormal is the color used to differentiate the hotkey color in
normal components, whereas the dhotfocus color is used for the high-
lighted color in the currently selected component.
Menus use the same scheme but uses the menu, menusel, menuhot and
menuhotsel tags instead.
Help uses the following colors: helpnormal is used for normal text,
helpitalic is used for text which is emphasized in italic in the manual
page, helpbold is used for text which is emphasized in bold in the man-
ual page, helplink is used for not selected hyperlinks and helpslink is
used for selected hyperlink.
Special highlight colors determine how files are displayed when file
highlighting is enabled (see the section on Layout). directory is used
for directories or symbolic links to directories; executable for exe-
cutable files; link is used for symbolic links which are neither stale
nor linked to a directory; stalelink is used for stale symbolic links;
device - character and block devices; special is used for special
files, such as pipes and sockets; core is for core files.
The possible colors are: black, gray, red, brightred, green, bright-
green, brown, yellow, blue, brightblue, magenta, brightmagenta, cyan,
brightcyan, lightgray and white. And there is a special keyword for
transparent background. It is 'default'. The 'default' can only be used
for background color. Example:
[Colors]
base_color=normal=white,default:marked=magenta,default
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