Howto : GfxBoot ( Grub like suse )

**Footissimo** · July 13th, 2006

Made a mod of the SuSE GFXBoot theme. Basically its a mash up of this SVG icon by Sairitupac Vasquez and this wallpaper by Paul Beyens.

I know nothing about QEMU, EMU or any flightless birds so I just took a screenie with me mobile. If some kind person fancies running it through a virtual PC thingy and doing a screenie then that would be much appreciated. (thanks Kno) There are two problems with it:

1) There is a slight artifact around the ubuntu icon - I've spent hours brushing to minimise JPG artifacts, but there's only so much I can do..it should be barely noticeable now. Its due to the complexity of the background - if people like this then I'll do another on a plainer background and get the logo 100%

2) The original SuSE theme screws up a little if you scroll down the kernel / OS options - seems to be because that panel needs to be shoved to the left a bit or made into 1024x768 rather than 800x600. Mine does the same...it doesn't effect functionality or anything, but if I do another, then I'll correct it (it was too late by the time I noticed it on this one).

Installing:

After doing all the GFXBoot palaver, just unzip the theme and copy it to /boot/grub/ then add

Code:

gfxmenu /boot/grub/message.ubugrey

to the top of the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Presumably you should remove any other themes you have there (such as message.suse)

**mech7** · July 13th, 2006

any screenshots ?

**Footissimo** · July 13th, 2006

Another theme, this time based on this wallpaper. Again, decompress and stick in /boot/grub then change the first line of /boot/grub/menu.lst to

Code:

gfxmenu /boot/grub/message.ububrown

and reboot.

Again, if someone could do a virtual session for the screenie

(thanks Kno)

**Malac** · July 14th, 2006

Here's my attempt.

**nimes** · July 17th, 2006

new gfxboot theme.

**kno** · July 17th, 2006

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Capture-ubugrey.png

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Capture-ububrown.png

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Capture-ubu.png

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**Footissimo** · July 17th, 2006

Thank you Kno

*looks at QEMU*

**nimes** · July 17th, 2006

thanks Kno

**msak007** · July 17th, 2006

Thanks for this how-to, it took less than 5 minutes to get everything installed and configured. This one of those "nice to have" features that I missed after switching back from SuSE and previously asked about something like it in the forums, but nobody knew how to do it. It just makes the overall look of the OS much nicer and more integrated. Now I just have to learn how to make my own gfxboot screen. For now I'm using the Kubuntu one that sebbe1991 made and it looks really nice. Thanks again!