Comments on: Midnight Commander Color Themes

By: PabloJ

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

@puthre: Thanks again!!!

@MariusG: usefull for detects only owner mc sessions

By: Rafael

Rafael — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:07:22 +0000

Good solution. It helped me because I work with different servers, but I couldn’t easily see in what server I was working at. Thanks a lot.

By: MariusG

MariusG — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:05:19 +0000

Awesome job!
One thing to note though:
if ( ps axu | grep -w [m]c > /dev/null ) then
also ‘detects’ mc running for other users. Possible solution:
if ( ps axu | grep -w [m]c | grep `whoami` > dev/null ) then

By: BentFX

BentFX — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:20:28 +0000

Added a transparent mc tutorial over at ubuntuforums.org…
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1403033
It links here to get your great little script
Screenshot is here…
http://bentfx.elementfx.com/images/mc_screenshot.png

By: fembe

fembe — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:56:23 +0000

Hi, when i diffed the ini file generated by your script with the original one i noticed some differences other than colors. It seemed that there where backslashes missing. It’s probably because “read” command treats “\” in a special manner. Using “read -r” solves the problem, but i’ve no idea if it can have some negative effect (for me it was OK).

By: Theming Midnight Commander « Motho ke motho ka botho

Theming Midnight Commander « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:01:37 +0000

[…] are a few sample themes on a blog here, along with a script that will neatly insert them into your .mc/ini file for you, to expedite the […]

By: gnusci

gnusci — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:28:59 +0000

You may add the option

editwhitespace=gray,black

the default value is

editwhitespace=brightblue,blue

that really hurts your eyes when you are coding late.

By: Radek

Radek — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:35:58 +0000

Really nice sript! Default MC is boring and ugly, but the “official way” to change this is really masochistic.

By: puthre

puthre — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:52:46 +0000

Jens: You might try to replace #!/bin/sh
with #!/bin/bash on the top of the script.

By: jens

jens — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:20:24 +0000

hi,

i was really emphasized finding some code to colourchange the mc on different consoles, but i’m suffering an error while executing the script: “./mc_change_theme.sh: 72: source: not found”
shell executing “source rottex.theme” runs, with no output

OS ubuntu 8.04.3
scriptfolder /home/user/Desktop/mcthemes

has anybody an idea?

thanks & regards

jens