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midnight commander dark color theme
Edit mc’s ini file (either ~/.mc/ini or ~/.config/mc/ini) and look for the line [Colors]. Then, change the line base_color to this:
[Colors]
base_color=linux:normal=white,black:marked=yellow,black:input=,green:menu=black:menusel=white:menuhot=red,:menuhotsel=black,red:dfocus=white,black:dhotnormal=white,black:dhotfocus=white,black:executable=,black:directory=white,black:link=white,black:device=white,black:special=white,black:core=,black:stalelink=red,black:editnormal=white,black
@jult
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jult commented Jan 31, 2019

Nice, thanks. One of the few that actually makes some sense. Although I'd prefer all the blues to be greens/browns, but I can change that myself.

@wkoszek
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wkoszek commented Oct 28, 2020

This looks very nice. Thanks for posting.

@haughki
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haughki commented Dec 7, 2020

so nice. thank you 👍

@CIPop
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CIPop commented Oct 21, 2021

Perfect for VSCode's light theme terminal! Thank you!

@griloHBG
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Thanks for the skin! Works great :D

@pabloab
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pabloab commented Sep 29, 2022

I'm doing something wrong...

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So I just skin=dark on ~/.config/mc/ini to get

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@holms
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holms commented Sep 29, 2022

@pabloab I've actually recently also tried this once and it didnt' worked as expected in osx. Need to try in Linux again.

@nelucon
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nelucon commented Feb 18, 2023

Looks great! Thank you so much!

@VioletGiraffe
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This is a very good color scheme, thanks a lot! Additionally, my terminal has some unusual colors (apparently) so that half of the default schemes are unreadable in some ways, but yours is perfect.

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