midnight commander dark color theme

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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 

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.

This looks very nice. Thanks for posting.

so nice. thank you 👍

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

Thanks for the skin! Works great :D

I'm doing something wrong...

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

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

Looks great! Thank you so much!

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.

I'm doing something wrong...

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

this doesn't work on

GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.27
ii  mc                                               3:4.8.27-1                              amd64        Midnight Commander - a powerful file manager
ii  mc-data                                          3:4.8.27-1                              all          Midnight Commander - a powerful file manager -- data files

which is part of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy)

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

Thanks a lot

Another option to consider is using this skin https://github.com/notnout/mashdark (you need to install it by following the steps there).