Changing reFind themes in BTRFS?

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hey all! Running base Arch at the moment, and after some help by someone from the community I managed to install reFind and ditch Grub.

The next rather minor hurdle, is installing a theme that’s prettier than reFinds rather lacklustre one, and thankfully they exist in abundance.

Technically, installing a theme should be easy, as per the instructions you create a /themes folder at your /boot/efi/refind folder, copy the folder for the theme there and then add to your refind.conf:
include themes/folder-name-for-the-theme/theme.conf

And that should be it…

Except after trying with 4 different themes it never seems to work, with no changes happening.

I was wondering if perhaps the online guides are missing something, or maybe the fact that my HDD is formated as BTRFS changes something?

Thank you!

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Should’t it be /boot/efi/EFI/refind ?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/REFInd#Installing_external_themes

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I’m writing from memory, but I’m pretty sure my refind is in /boot/efi/refind, I will double check later!

Nevertheless, I’m setting up the themes folder were my refind folder is in my boot, and then referencing that folder in the include line…

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Your post actually indirectly gave me the clue of what was happening.

Turns out the themes are very picky about where they are placed!
For example instructions for this theme, https://github.com/1j01/refind-theme-regular, say to put it in a folder called refind-theme-regular, and if you put it anywhere else it won’t work for some reason.

So I basically didn’t have to use a “themes” folder, go figure.