The mc OneDark theme comes in two flavors, an 8/16 color option (onedark.ini) and a 16M color option (onedark16M.ini). The 8/16 color version is entirely dependent on having installed the relevant OneDark theme for your terminal too as it uses the color palette fixed by your terminal.

See Konsole color scheme for example.

The 16M color version can be used independently of any terminal color scheme, but requires true color support in the terminal.

• Copy files from ./skins to ~/.local/share/mc/skins
• Copy files from ./config to ~/.config/mc/ (optional)

or

• Link configs with dotbot:

dotbot -c install.conf.yaml

1. Choose the skin through the mc UI with:

# F9 > Options > Appearance

2. Edit ~/.config/mc/ini and add skin=onedark:

sed -i 's|\(^skin=\).*$|\1onedark|' ~/.config/mc/ini

3. Run mc with specific skin:

mc -S onedark

4. Add export MC_SKIN=onedark to the initialization file of your shell (e.g., ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc):

echo "export MC_SKIN=onedark" >> ~/.zshrc