Midnight Commander Color Themes
Here is a script to easy change the default blue scheme of Midnight Commander.
Unpack the archive and do:
./mc_change_theme.sh puthre.theme
To revert to the default scheme just:
./mc_change_theme.sh default.theme
The script will modify your ~/.mc/ini file. Please make sure that Midnight Commander is not running when you change your theme.
Here is how a theme file looks:
BASE_COLOR=lightgray,blue
NORMAL=lightgray,blue
SELECTED=black,cyan
MARKED=yellow,blue
MARKSELECT=yellow,cyan
ERRORS=white,red
MENU=white,cyan
REVERSE=black,lightgray
DNORMAL=black,lightgray
DFOCUS=black,cyan
DHOTNORMAL=blue,lightgray
DHOTFOCUS=blue,cyan
VIEWUNDERLINE=brightred,blue
MENUHOT=yellow,cyan
MENUSEL=white,black
MENUHOTSEL=yellow,black
HELPNORMAL=black,lightgray
HELPITALIC=red,lightgray
HELPBOLD=blue,lightgray
HELPLINK=black,cyan
HELPSLINK=yellow,blue
GAUGE=white,black
INPUT=black,cyan
DIRECTORY=white,blue
EXECUTABLE=brightgreen,blue
LINK=lightgray,blue
STALELINK=brightred,blue
DEVICE=brightmagenta,blue
CORE=red,blue
SPECIAL=black,blue
EDITNORMAL=lightgray,blue
EDITBOLD=yellow,blue
EDITMARKED=black,cyan
ERRDHOTNORMAL=yellow,red
ERRDHOTFOCUS=yellow,lightgray
Here is the result:
