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Perfect explanation!
Many thanks!
I have Explore for mouse and Commander for everything else. I don't like right click select. It all makes sense now.

ok, thanks for this!
It turned out I was misinterpreting "Focus" and "Selected and in focus". I assumed that clicking on a file or folder makes in in focus only, but according to this color setting this also makes it selected and moving up/down the list makes items focused+selected as well. Now, it doesn't matter which way it is so long I can make it work and I can!

this is what I'm using in the Total Commander and what I'd like to set up in MC

I had tried this before, but just to be sure did it again now and restarted the MC and still nothing. I thought this setting (override w background was for the panel background?

I've read a few posts here on how it is supposed to work, but whatever I do I cannot make changes to the way items in focus (or selected or both) are coloured.  The are always in red with default background. What I'm trying to get is a highlighting using darker background. Everything else in colours seem to work as expected (i.e. colour rules etc) including backgrounds.
I'm attaching a screenshot of what I'm trying to set up.
Great file manager though! Thanks.

Using v4.1 build 1620 64bit portable on W7x64

btw, the URLs for older version downloads are all broken (http://multicommander.com/files/updates/old/MultiCommander_x64_%284.0.0.1611%29.exe)