Post Your Grub 2 Themes

**Legendary_Bibo** · October 28th, 2011

Originally Posted by MG&TL

Yeah.

So you're saying an application that can open and deploy pre-packaged GRUB themes?

Yeah. Can do that. I'll make a launchpad page, if I'm getting you straight. I'll PM you. presumably you can code? I can do basic stuff, but my major failing is the GUI stuff. Cannot do it.

I'm still noobish at coding, most of my experience has been on .NET. I'm trying to learn Mono Sharp as well, the way gtk works is weird to me.

But I'll learn some more tonight and see if I can get something.

**MG&TL** · October 28th, 2011

Originally Posted by Legendary_Bibo

I'm still noobish at coding, most of my experience has been on .NET. I'm trying to learn Mono Sharp as well, the way gtk works is weird to me.

But I'll learn some more tonight and see if I can get something.

I started all of six months ago.

Noobish then, noobish now. I still google everything.

Would you prefer to have a C-based language or a fresher, newer one?

**towheedm** · October 29th, 2011

Originally Posted by Legendary_Bibo

I was confused about the install.sh script in there. It didn't seem to do anything, I had to manually link and copy stuff for it to work (which I could turn it into a script I guess).

You must change the variables in the script for proper installation. Please see my GRUB guide. Ah, but it's also a heavily commented script.

Next time, I'll look first. Saw they were changed.

Ran the install script and it successfully installed the theme to /boot/grub/themes/Axiom.

**towheedm** · October 29th, 2011

Originally Posted by Legendary_Bibo

I'm getting that as well, and trying to figure out why that's happening. My guess would be that there's too much being loaded in. I might reduce the size of the distributor logos and see if that helps.

I'll hit the down arrow then like half a second later it moves.

It's not a problem with the theme. It's a bug in GRUB. Apparently the poll rate is too long. There was a patch for it somewhere around.

Anyway, since the mod has stated that this thread is not for support ...

**drs305** · October 29th, 2011

Originally Posted by towheedm

Anyway, since the mod has stated that this thread is not for support ...

Hehe. Well, I guess I did say that...

If one of you would start a new thread and put the link here we can all follow along.

**Legendary_Bibo** · October 29th, 2011

Originally Posted by towheedm

You must change the variables in the script for proper installation. Please see my GRUB guide. Ah, but it's also a heavily commented script.

Yeah I looked at your script in more detail d'oh! Well I stopped writing up my script and I'm working on the GUI installer, and I'll figure a way on how to incorporate MG&TL's stuff like changing Fonts and background images.

**MG&TL** · October 29th, 2011

Keep us informed, legendary_bibo!

**Legendary_Bibo** · October 29th, 2011

Worked on the GUI when I could (this takes longer to do in Mono Develop than Visual Stuido btw).

I kept it simple, and this will give us something usable. It would be nice to have some advanced design options, but I'm not sure if Grub stretches the images and what not. So that may be a bit difficult. I do have one question, if you use a wallpaper that's not 1024x768 or just doesn't match grub's resolution, does it throw a fit?

I'll either start coding stuff tonight, or tomorrow.