Fancy menu for GRUB EFI

[pxwpxw]

I just write a document on the configuration of new menu system:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Burg

That is a good doc, it answers many questions I had.
Using it now running on burg efi and pc build for Imac81, with added icons and tools using merge_cfg to add classes and extra stuff some taken from the last demo menu, post #28. Started from the default.txt config and added bits.

[GoldenCrystal]

Hello,

I have to thank you all for your work on GRUB, allowing me to boot my Macbook in much better conditions than a plain text mode
I was still a bit sad, seing that there were not yet any real theme to use, so, based on your example menu, I was able to make a rEFIt-like menu for GRUB2, thus replacing the real rEFIt, which became unusable for me when I wanted to cleanly boot linux in EFI mode.

Right now I don't know what would be a better place to do this, so allow me me give my little contribution here: rEFIt_Styled_Menu_beta.zip

Currently, I use Gentoo, so I also made an ebuild for BURG, hosted on bugs.gentoo.org for now.
But rest assured I still took care of including a lot of different icons in my theme, so that it can be of use to a lot of people.

By the way, do you know if it would be possible to disable the "Welcome to GRUB" message at boot, or even better, how to leave the EFI graphics untouched at the beginning ? I've not yet taken the time to look at the GRUB source code, so I have no idea of how complex/easy this might be, but such a thing would be great for users like me.

Anyway, thank you very much for letting all of this happen.

[bean123]

Hello,

I have to thank you all for your work on GRUB, allowing me to boot my Macbook in much better conditions than a plain text mode
I was still a bit sad, seing that there were not yet any real theme to use, so, based on your example menu, I was able to make a rEFIt-like menu for GRUB2, thus replacing the real rEFIt, which became unusable for me when I wanted to cleanly boot linux in EFI mode.

Right now I don't know what would be a better place to do this, so allow me me give my little contribution here: rEFIt_Styled_Menu_beta.zip

Currently, I use Gentoo, so I also made an ebuild for BURG, hosted on bugs.gentoo.org for now.
But rest assured I still took care of including a lot of different icons in my theme, so that it can be of use to a lot of people.

By the way, do you know if it would be possible to disable the "Welcome to GRUB" message at boot, or even better, how to leave the EFI graphics untouched at the beginning ? I've not yet taken the time to look at the GRUB source code, so I have no idea of how complex/easy this might be, but such a thing would be great for users like me.

Anyway, thank you very much for letting all of this happen.

Thanks a lot for your support. BTW, I have created three themes based on Colin's menu demo. It can be downloaded at:

http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/themes.tar.bz2

Extract it to root directory, theme files should be in /boot/grub/themes/.

To enable in in EFI, add these lines at the end of grub.cfg:

set gfxmode="0x0"
set gfxfont="Unifont Regular 16"
loadfont /boot/grub/themes/fonts/unifont.pf2
loadfont /boot/grub/themes/fonts/aqui.pf2
loadfont /boot/grub/themes/fonts/edges.pf2
loadfont /boot/grub/themes/fonts/lime.pf2
loadfont /boot/grub/themes/fonts/7x13B.pf2
loadfont /boot/grub/themes/fonts/smoothansi.pf2
loadfont /boot/grub/themes/fonts/Helvetica-Bold-14.pf2
load_config /boot/grub/themes/proto/theme.txt

To enable in in PC mode, add these lines at the end of grub.cfg:

set gfxmode="640x480"
insmod vbe
insmod png
insmod coreui
set gfxfont="Unifont Regular 16"
loadfont /boot/grub/themes/fonts/unifont.pf2
loadfont /boot/grub/themes/fonts/aqui.pf2
loadfont /boot/grub/themes/fonts/edges.pf2
loadfont /boot/grub/themes/fonts/lime.pf2
loadfont /boot/grub/themes/fonts/7x13B.pf2
loadfont /boot/grub/themes/fonts/smoothansi.pf2
loadfont /boot/grub/themes/fonts/Helvetica-Bold-14.pf2
load_config /boot/grub/themes/proto/theme.txt

The last line is the theme file to load, there are three themes available.

proto: /boot/grub/themes/proto/theme.txt
ubuntu: /boot/grub/themes/ubuntu/theme.txt
winter: /boot/grub/themes/winter/theme.txt

Here are some screenshots:

[bean123]

PPA package available, detail information can be found at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Burg

[bean123]

Create a new team in launchpad:

https://launchpad.net/~burg

It's open, anyone can join in. Team mailing list:

burg@lists.launchpad.net

[bean123]

Create a new team in launchpad:

https://launchpad.net/~burg

It's open, anyone can join in. Team mailing list:

burg@lists.launchpad.net

Oh, I think google groups is more easy to use and manage, therefore
the mailing list is moved to:

Group home page: http://groups.google.com/group/burg-devel
Group email address: burg-devel@googlegroups.com

[davibe]

was anyone able to boot an USB ubuntu installation using a mac ??

[L_V]

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[bilallucky]

Support dialog template, the demo uses this to implement both the e and t hotkey:

e = "menu_edit dialog_edit text=command"
t = "menu_edit dialog_edit text=title\nmenu_refresh"

e edits the command, while t edit the menu title.

Add direction function menu_next_node, menu_prev_node, menu_next_anchor and menu_prev_anchor. This is quite useful when you need to bind them to hotkey. For example, the demo adds two terminal example to Tools menu. Inside terminal, normal navigation key up/down/left/right/tab are all used, so you need to define a hotkey to switch focus. The demo uses f6:

f6 = menu_next_anchor

Smart pop up control. If parent menu is at the bottom of screen, sub menu pops to the top, If parent menu is at the top of screen, sub menu pops to the bottom, etc. This ensures the pop up menu won't be clipped by screen border.