[root] EndeavourOS grub theme

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Yes, that can happen, and it’s great that now that’s a source of interest and further learning. Nice to have that sense of ancestry across time, and it can be very refreshing to look at different times and ways. And hundewadt sounds very powerful. What does it mean translated?

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The following is entirely fictional.

There may be an translation - but is a crossing of langues

  1. In Danish the work Hund is a dog.
  2. The word Hundevad could be a word explaining a place - crossing of a water - where a dog could pass without swimming(derived from german).
  3. If you look at a map you will find - in the southern of Jutland - a village or estate - named 'Hundevad*
  4. Do we know what this is - no - we don’t - but historiaclly - our imagination will do the most.
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EDIT: great explanation. I think I can make some sense of it.

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Well - the history of Hundewadt in the area of southern Denmark - is extremely well documented.

No correlation of any star images is intended.

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I can’t find anything in English about Hundewadt ancient history, but will try again. Not sure what a star image is. I’ll need to head off for now, but good chat. Have a great rest of the day.

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I just installed on this on my tablet, and I love it. Is there an easy way to have more than three boot options visible without having to scroll? I assume it’s something in the theme.txt, but I wasn’t confident enough about any of the options to mess with it. Thanks.

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Very Nice! Can you tell me again how to add a background to rEFInd? I see you have Arch install? What Ubuntu is that one? Also Garuda?

Edit: Also I’m wondering because i have the Btrfs setup and grub comes up after i select the desktop i guess i could have a grub theme also as i am using the grub to boot from the rEFInd icon instead of the linuz-linux image.

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Not sure exactly when that was :grin: Currently I have (L to R) Garuda btrfs (using grub after rEFInd), EndeavourOS, Arch, Xubuntu 20.04, and another Garuda (ext4 no grub) on this machine.

As for changing rEFInd backgrounds, just copy a suitable .png to **/boot/efi/EFI/refind, and edit refind.conf to have banner=path/to/file. If you want the rEFInd logo in there, you have to add it in an art program yourself.

Oh - and the OTHER machine is bit more varied: L to R
EnOS MATE, Arch, Rolling Rhino, Ubuntu Unity, ArcoLinux, EnOS, Arch w/ extra repos, and MX-19. I’ll probably cut down soon - updating could become a problem!

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Ya …I’m running 3 EndeavourOS and that’s enough. I really like Solus Budgie but it’s another one that is a pain for booting with other distros. I gotta find that Endeavour background without the icons on it.

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Well - if you’re after what I THINK you’re after…

Let me know to take it back down… :grin:

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Okay I got that thanks.

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Yes - you can change the height and other options.

I have modified the theme slightly - to have a larger selection and the timer moved to the west to make room for a bigger menu. Also added some splashes without logo.

These properties control the boot menu

...
+ boot_menu {
  left = 17%
  top = 35%
  width = 66%
  height = 60%
...

These propertiex control which splash are used

...
# 16:9 splash
#desktop-image: "splash_169.png"
# 4:3 splash
desktop-image: "splash_43.png"
...

The properties control where the countdown is placed

+ circular_progress
{
...
   left = 0
   top = 100%-160
   height = 160
   width = 160
...

yay -S endeavouros-galleon-grub
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Thanks, this is great. When I make adjustments to theme.txt, do I need to run grub-mkconfig again for them to take effectt? And is there a way to preview changes without rebooting each time?

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Try grub-emu

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No thats not necessary

There is different methods. My preferred method is an usb stick with grub boot loader. I created one using the multiboot usb script found at https://mbusb.aguslr.com. The developer has a test based on qemu which I use (created a script with it).

I edit the theme on the stick then run qemu to boot the stick.

➜  ~ cat .local/bin/test-grub-theme 
#/bin/sh
if test -z "$1"; then
    echo "no device given"
    exit
fi
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -rtc base=localtime -m 2G -vga std -drive file="$1",readonly,cache=none,format=raw,if=virtio

I have never heard of grub-emu - but that is also worth a try - appears to be part of grub.

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I do like this theme. I wound up repackaging it into a tarball so I could use grub-customizer along with any other themes I find (or make).

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Can you also somehow beautify this hard disk encryption password input?