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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
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AndreiZibrov commented Jul 17, 2024 •
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I'm doing something wrong...

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

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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)

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@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

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notnout commented Sep 16, 2024

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

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