Midnight command isn't running with 256 color skin

sam-y · February 3, 2022 at 2:54 PM

Hi,

the command line file manager midnight commander is installed together with an addon (system tools i think). On my normal ubuntu mc is running with the skin modarin256.ini because the default skin is really ugly. But i can't start mc with the skin on libreelec (mc -S /storage/modarin256.ini). There is the error

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Unable to use '/storage/modarin256.ini' skin with 256 colors support
on non-256 colors terminal.
Default skin has been loaded

Can i run the terminal in 256 color mode?

**mglae** · February 3, 2022 at 4:42 PM

LE is only supporting a subset of terminals (linux,screen,xterm,xterm-color,dumb,st-256color). In most cases TERM=xterm is selected.

You can install a custom termcap in /storage/.config/termcap and set TERM.

sam-y · February 3, 2022 at 6:09 PM

Quote from mglae

LE is only supporting a subset of terminals (linux,screen,xterm,xterm-color,dumb,st-256color). In most cases TERM=xterm is selected.

How can i check whats used at the moment? "st-256color" sounds like 256-color-support?

Quote from mglae

You can install a custom termcap in /storage/.config/termcap and set TERM.

How can i install that?

**mglae** · February 4, 2022 at 3:52 PM

Quote from sam-y

How can i check whats used at the moment?

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echo $TERM

Quote from sam-y

"st-256color" sounds like 256-color-support?

Yes, but only usable for the st terminal emulator.

Quote from sam-y

How can i install that?

Copy the definitions for your used terminal to /storage/.config/termcap or use a complete one from a common Linux distribution. Then set TERM=xyz ("xyz" is a plyceholder for the terminal definition needed).

For a temporary test just call TERM=xyz mc

RemonK · July 30, 2022 at 5:02 PM

This does not work for me.

I created /storage/.config/termcap and have copied all the subdirs, but when i choose xterm-256color or screen-256color then mc can't find them..

**mglae** · July 30, 2022 at 10:48 PM

termcap is a single file.

RemonK · July 31, 2022 at 6:21 AM

Ok, i switched termcap with terminfo.. will do some more research on that!