Comments on: Midnight Commander Color Themes

By: e3k

e3k — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:05:53 +0000

@Ole G. — July 3, 2009 @ 2:23 pm Ole: did rm ~/.Xdefaults as it did screw up the distinguishing between an mp3 and folder in my Konsole… there should be sync between those chars displaying and enter accepting technologies. other wise its chaos.

By: pls

pls — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:09:17 +0000

Thanks to all the people who created script and themes!

By: AG

AG — Thu, 12 May 2011 07:39:53 +0000

Thanks puthre and all the people for your work.

By: Goran

Goran — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:56:52 +0000

Ola puthre, and thank you for your answer

I use yours theme, here is the code:

BASE_COLOR=gray,black
NORMAL=white,black
MENU=yellow,black
MENUHOT=red,black
VIEWUNDERLINE=black,green
EDITNORMAL=white,black
EDITMARKED=black,white
DIRECTORY=brightblue,gray
EXECUTABLE=brightgreen,gray
DEVICE=magenta,gray
INPUT=yellow,gray
LINK=brightcyan,gray
STALLEDLINK=white,gray
REVERSE=brightmagenta,black
SELECTED=black,green
MARKED=yellow,green
MARKSELECT=black,yellow

If I change Menu options it changes to colour set in theme but only if I click on it…
As I move away I get that ‘original’ light blue…
Menuhot changes the selected item…

I want the top and bottom line to stay coloured as theme suggests,
(top line in 2nd picture)
not to turn ‘light blue’ as in first picture as I move away from it…

I use gentoo os and ratpoison wm, terminal is (one and only) xterm, if this info helps to help me out…
Don’t get me wrong, it is much better than original, but I would like to have it the way I want…

By: puthre

puthre — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:29:24 +0000

@Goran – I think you should change MENUHOT=yellow,cyan in the theme file so that the second color (background) is set to “black” and then reapply the theme

By: Goran

Goran — Sun, 08 May 2011 18:04:07 +0000

Hello,
Great little script, bravo and thank you!

I do have one request, how can I change menus colour/backcolour?
Here is what I mean, in this picture: http://www.shrani.si/f/3U/10z/p9WZ3V6/scrot20110508195051.png
there is menu in original colour

But as I click on it, it changes to what I want, here is picture:
http://www.shrani.si/f/u/8W/sTNCS9D/scrot20110508195100.png

Sorry for my broken English, so I want menus to ALWAYS be as in second picture.
Also, I would like to apply that on bottom menus (for F1-F10)

Thank you.
Kind regards, Goran

By: demon

demon — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:19:47 +0000

Very nice, and easy to change the colours.
Thx for ur job.
Go ahead!!

By: Fixing Midnight Commander’s unreadable dropdown menus « The Michigan Telephone blog

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:36:57 +0000

[...] I figured out how to do this after reading this blog post: Ajnasz Blog – Midnight Commander colors and themes Another source of information is: Zagura’s blog – Midnight Commander Color Themes [...]

By: Bulibuta

Bulibuta — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:17:27 +0000

if ( ps axu | grep -w [m]c | grep `whoami` > dev/null ) then

Wow, really? so you use the all users flag for ps and then you grep for whoaim…. doesn’t anyone read manpages anymore? Jesus!

And somewhere along this thread there were all kinds of suggestions around this if statement, has nobody heard of pgrep?
I think even Linux distributions have that now.

Also, for sourcing isn’t the . keyword a standard?

Like:

. /etc/ksh.kshrc

I know this might come as a shock but not everyone uses bash.

Now I’m finished being arrogant and picking on a script that I don’t even use. I’ll crawl back to my BSD cave.

By: PabloJ

PabloJ — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:25:34 +0000

@puthre: Thanks again!!!

@MariusG: usefull for detects only owner mc sessions