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#Grub theme file example update
You only need to give Grub a general command to update itself with the new configuration.Ĭ. You don't need to specify a location of the picture, as Grub sees that automatically. Now you can tell Grub, that he should use holiday.jpg as background for the Grub menu. (of course you should replace holiday.jpg by the name of your own picture)ġ.4. Sudo cp -v ~/Downloads/holiday.jpg /boot/grub An example is easiest: the picture called holiday.jpg is now in your folder Downloads. The simplest method is by using the terminal. Put the picture, let's call it holiday.jpg, in the folder /boot/grub: Save it to the default folder Downloads and leave it there.ġ.3. Then do a right-click with your mouse on the picture and select "Save image as.".
#Grub theme file example download
When you have no suitable picture, then you can download a picture here from a beautiful evening landscape in Sachsen, Germany:Ĭlick once on the preview below, in order to magnify the picture to the maximum. Bigger doesn't matter: Grub will then automatically scale it back to fit your display. png files might also be suitable, but I haven't tried those myself).Ĭhoose a picture that offers enough contrast for white letters, because the boot lines in Grub will have thin white letters!įurthermore, the picture should be at least as big as the resolution of your display. Now choose the picture that you want for background. In Mint this has changed: you'll see asterisks when you type. In Ubuntu this remains entirely invisible, not even dots will show when you type it, that's normal. Sudo apt-get remove grub2-theme-mint grub2-theme-mint-2k (You can launch a terminal window like this: *Click*) Like this you can ensure that the Grub of Linux Mint doesn't deviate from the Ubuntu version that it's built on: In Linux Mint you need to make sure that you don't have the Mint theme package installed for the Grub menu, because that would thwart the procedure outlined below.
Linux Mint only: remove the Mint theme package for the Grub menuġ.1. Configure Grub to use the right resolution and show bigger textġ.The normal procedure should work in most cases, so proceed like this: Option: better readable text colour in the Grub menu Linux Mint only: remove the Mint theme package for the Grub menu
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