is there anyway to make GrubEd screen size bigger ?
is there anyway to make GrubEd screen size bigger ?
The GUI for GrubEd is controlled through Zenity, which by default simply restricts itself to the smallest size it needs to be. It's possible there's a size parameter, but I can't remember off the top of my head. If you fancy taking a look at the zenity documentation ('man zenity' in the terminal), you may be able to find something relevant. If you do find something, you can go through the GrubEd script yourself and change the sizes. If you don't feel confident doing that then I'll take a look in a few days and see what can be done. I can't look myself at the moment as I don't have access to my own computer (stuck with Windows for the time being!).
Thanks for the interest
In the terminal
Code:sudo aptitude install zenity
Thanks Tomosaur,
I looked at GrubEd and its over my head what to do. Looked at man page, same thing.
I can strech the screen but the next one goes back to the original size.
Thanks again for the great prg, cant wait for the splash editor !
cecil pierce
Thanks for the info, I'll keep it in mind.
Most of you may have noticed that I haven't released any updates to GrubEd for a while now. I've been very busy since just before Christmas last year and haven't really had time to work on anything except uni projects. The python, 'more universal' version is indefinately delayed for the time being for this reason, I just can't spend any time on it at the moment.
You bunt to?:
It's perfectly possible, sure. The problem is in the fact that GrubEd is currently being used on a variety of distributions. The exact method of getting and installing zenity may vary depending on distribution. If you're using Ubuntu (ie, not Kubuntu or Xubuntu), then GrubEd should work fine without any extra setup.As an absolute beginner (to Linux) this is the sort of sentence that really puts me off. Couldn't your
script make a test to see if "zenity" is "enabled" (whatever "enabled" means) ?
If zenity is not installed on your system (you can check by typing 'dpkg -l zenity' in the terminal, or typing 'zen' and hitting tab twice, then checking the list of programs that is displayed. If zenity is not there, then you need to install it), then you can install it using the command Frak gave (provided you're using an Ubuntu variant).
If that command returns an error, then you need to install zenity from here:
http://directory.fsf.org/zenity.html
I'll update the information in the help pages some time this week, though, and try to make the installation process a bit more 'automatic'. Thanks for the interest in GrubEd though
First of all, I am running Kubuntu and had to do 'sudo apt-get install zenity' to get it to work. I can't recall having had anything to do with Zenity in the past (removing or otherwise).
Secondly, the splash screen was nice, but I get the black square right smack in the middle with all the menu options in. The splash screen can only be seen around the edges where there is nothing going on.
Thirdly, custom colours didn't work. Instead of showing colours, it showed nothing. I had to blindly choose between the options without seeing what I had selected.
Any ideas why this is so?
[EDIT: After removing custom colours the splash screen covered the whole screen, and everything looked dandy! (even if the text was just in black and white) I guess I'll try again at a later date. Now I will hunt for awesome splash screens!]
Last edited by Nightmist; April 23rd, 2007 at 08:10 PM.
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Zenity makes use of GTK+, so it is not shipped by default with Kubuntu, which uses KDE as it's environment. I will work on getting the installer script to detect zenity and any other dependencies and offer to download and install it, but I have no date penned for the updated version, as I'm pretty busy at the moment.
I'm fairly sure this only happens when you try to use custom colours with a splash screen. Grub behaves bizarrely when you enable both, so I'm afraid it's an either/or situation. Just having colours enabled will cause this problem, in my experience (regardless of whether you actually alter the colours it uses) so try disabling colours and seeing if that improves things. The help file should contain a little more information.Secondly, the splash screen was nice, but I get the black square right smack in the middle with all the menu options in. The splash screen can only be seen around the edges where there is nothing going on.
Again, if you have a splash and custom colours at the same time, this kind of thing happens. The behaviour is unpredictable at best, and as it's a grub issue (not a GrubEd issue), there's not much I can do about it I'm afraid, aside from recommend you use either a splash, or custom colours, but not both.Thirdly, custom colours didn't work. Instead of showing colours, it showed nothing. I had to blindly choose between the options without seeing what I had selected.
Any ideas why this is so?
There are other bootloaders you could experiment with which provide more customisation options. For example, you could take a look at GfxBoot
Yeah, I edited my post right as you posted I guess. I found out the same as you, but glad to have it confirmed.
Nice work, by the way. Next thing would be an easier way to edit the various menu options in the Grub menu, but I guess someone already requested that
Thanks.
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