I have now installed VL5.9Std on two machines. On both of them, mc show directories as white on white unless selected then they are black on green (cyan?). Man gave me enough info to thoroughly confuse me. I did lead me to ~/mc/ini. I extracted the portion that I believe covers what's happening but have no idea what to change.
[Colors]
xterm=normal=,default:selected=:marked=,default:markselect=:errors=white,red:input=white,blue:reverse=,lightgray:gauge=,blue:executable=brightgreen,default:directory=white,default:link=cyan,default:stalelink=brightred,default:device=brightblue,default:special=brightmagenta,default:core=magenta,default
Since mc is started from pyNeighborhood (it worked this time

) I can't pass it -b parameter.
How can I see my directories?