How to configure the new canvas to other colors other than the default black.

[Xyde]

I read the documentation where it says that it's possible to change certain settings by using a global preferences file ..\etc\mtpaint\mtpaintrc.

http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/handbook/en_GB/chap_A.html#SEC9

However, the documentation does not specifies on how to change the default canvas background color (I also want to change the default A & B color from Red-Black (1 and 0) to Black-White (0 and 7). I don't do pixel arts but use it as a normal image editor for its lightweight-ness (as MS paint.exe lags my PC) but this always black canvas (even during new layer creation) makes working with mtPaint really cumbersome...

[wjaguar]

The default backround which is 0/0/0, is what the standard function calloc() creates. If you believe your couple seconds spent choosing a colour and then doing "select all"/"fill selection" is more valuable than the several minutes I'll have to spend adding that same thing to preferences, then this pedestrian program is apparently not for an exalted personality such as you.