Playing with Aterm's colors

[Wallex]

I like aterm... it's quick to load and it has neat graphical effects (transparency and tinting of it above the others). But there's something that annoys me... when I select text, the text color is always white. So if you have black text, when you select it you'll see white text on a black background. But what about when your text is white? When I select text, I only see a white box, can't read a thing on that. Why that's bad? When I am in vi or in the manuals or some other terminal app, there will be 'selected' text at some place to 'highlight' it, well.. in my case, it just blinds it. I've looked everywhere through the options in aterm -help, and none of them seems to set the selectedtext color, I did a aterm --help to get a longer list of help, and well, I see what seems to be the variables of aterm, but I have no idea how I am supposed to 'set' these new variables, I've tried around with the command, and I can't get it working. I'd personally like editing the palette... ideas on how I can do this?

EDIT: Oh yeah, this isn't exactly related, but I made an alias in bashrc so that when I type aterm it'll get replaced for the very long command I use to open aterm with all it's parameters defined, but that alias only works if I type aterm inside the aterm (which is a bit pointless), it won't work on my keybinded aterm or when I start it from the menu, why is this?

[Wallex]

I still don't know why the alias in bashrc won't work with the keybindings (well.. I can understand it is called 'bash'rc, but I dunno where else to configure my alias), but I've gotten a bit far into configuring mc's colors. I had to do mc -C errors=white -C reverse=black -C gauge=yellow,black .. and so on until I finished with all the options. But I wonder.. can't I disable the background color? I wished I could use aterm's (because it is transparent), or is it not possible? I guess no. mc should have an option for a transparent background (use the term's default, that is).