Configuration - Color                            Back
 
With this page, you can control text color, background color, marked and cursor color of the file windows. You can also choose if you want to display the cursor as a small rectangle or as a filled box. However, you cannot change the color of buttons and lines (only global with control panel), because they use the standard given by Windows. Starting with Total Commander 9.50, you can switch between a normal and a dark mode.
 
Field Description
 
Dark mode: Switch between normal and dark mode. The change is applied immediately. The third option reacts to the Windows 10 option "Choose your default app mode", which can be reached via right click on the desktop - Personalize - Colors - Choose your color.
Note: Some colors can only be changed by closing and re-opening Total Commander, e.g. most context menus and standard Windows dialogs. Some elements like context menus can only be shown in dark form in Windows 10 Fall 2018 (1809) and newer.
 
Font color: Use this option to select the text color for the main window.
 
Background: Select the background color of your choice. Only the file panels are drawn in that color. The color of the surrounding window background is determined by the default button color.
 
Background 2: Define a different color for all even lines. It's recommended to define a color which differs only slightly from the normal background color.
 
Mark color: You can select the color for marked files here. Avoid selecting the same color as for text.
 
Cursor color: Use this to chose a color for the selection frame around the current file. The default is a dashed inverted frame (Windows default).
 
Cursor font: Allows you to change the color of the text inside the cursor bar. This option is only available if the inverted cursor is used.
 
Others Define colors for various other locations.
For Lister you can set:
- Foreground and background color for normal text,
- Foreground and background color for selected text,
- Color for HTML links. (only for the mode "HTML - Text")
For compare by content, you can set:
- Text color for differences in text mode,
- Text color for differences in selected text in text mode,
- Text color for differences in binary mode,
- Text color for differences in selected text in binary mode.
- Text color for text with no differences
- Background color for text with no differences
- Background color for text with differences
- Text color for selected text with no differences
- Background color for selected text with no differences
- Search results (underline)
For the Title bar of the file panels, you can set:
- Text color of the active side
- Background color of the active side
- Text color of the inactive side
- Background color of the inactive side
For "Synchronize directories", you can set:
- Background color of selected lines
For "Hint windows", you can set:
- Text color
- Background color
- Border color
For the dark mode, you can set:
- Text color
- Background color
- Highlight color: Active tab, buttons permanently down. Highlight (2): Currently pressed button, borders
- Border: Border color of listboxes, group boxes etc.
- Horizontal lines: Lines between main menu, button bar, and drive button bar
 
Use Windows theme for cursor
The cursor is drawn with the current Windows theme instead of the user-defined color.
 
Use inverted cursor: If this option is checked the cursor is shown as a solid bar with the color selected under "cursor color". Otherwise the cursor is shown as a rectangle around the active file.
 
Use inverted selection
The selected files are shown as a solid bar with the color selected under "mark color". Cannot be selected at the same time as the previous option.
 
Define colors by file type
Opens a dialog box which allows you to define different colors for different file types, e.g. one color for ZIP archives and another color for system files.
 
Example This shows a sample text with text color and the background you selected.