
Originally Posted by
ganesh2k5
I am new to UBUNTU (Linux) and the first thing I wish to change is the customized Menu interface, and the "GRUB CUSTOMIZER" is a breeze.
Still there is an issue of the colors and the background image chosen under<Preferences>,< appearance>,under "GC"is not displaying. I am getting the same ugly black background and white texts. Some body help me resolve this.
Welcome to the Ubuntu forums.
I tried selecting the background in GC and it failed for me as well. However, I had already modified my files and that may be the reason.
In any case, you can try this. GC may have created it's own files on your system. If it has, 05_debian_theme may not open or you will get an empty file (and this procedure won't work).
These procedures are for Grub 1.98 (Lucid/Maverick):
Code:
gksu gedit /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme
Find this section near the top:
# this allows desktop-base to override our settings
f=/usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh
if test -e ${f} ; then
. ${f}
else
WALLPAPER="/usr/share/images/desktop-base/moreblue-orbit-grub.png"
COLOR_NORMAL="black/black"
COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="magenta/black"
fi
Replace it with the following:
Change the Wallpaper entry to point to your background image.
Change the colors to those you wish to use. "black" as the second entry means "transparent" and will allow you to see the background image. Also don't use a color which is the same color as your background image's color, since it will blend in and you may not be able to read it.
New:
# this allows desktop-base to override our settings
f=/usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh
if test -e ${f} ; then
. ${f}
else WALLPAPER="path.to.your.background.image/filename.png"
COLOR_NORMAL="black/
black"
COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="magenta/
black"
Save the file, then run:
As the command runs, see if the image is found (Found background image...) in the terminal output immediately after the "Generating grub.cfg ..." line.