Changing appeareance of grub

Anuoip · 02-24-2005, 05:51 AM

How do I change the appearance (colour) of grub in SuSE linux 9.1? I tried changing the 'color' option from YaST..but no luck! Actually I want to change the default blue coloured appearance to the one like in SuSE linux personal viz green. Any hints?

homey · 02-24-2005, 05:58 AM

I don't remember what the setup is for Suse but, FC3 has /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz . You can edit that with the gimp.

doralsoral · 02-24-2005, 07:13 AM

if you want to use an image edit whatever image you would like in gimp, change it to 640 x 480 with 14 colors. Save it as splash.xpm then from a term typer gzip splash.xpm then copy to /boot/grub

zahadumy · 05-30-2005, 12:52 PM

Can you tell me how to change an image to 640 x 480 with 14 colors in GIMP? I can't find that option... Generally, i don't like Windows, but i have to say that Adobe Photoshop and Corel are more powerful that GIMP. Thank you.

sys-fire · 05-30-2005, 02:02 PM

To change image to 640 x 480:

Open the Gimp, then go to 'File' menu and open the pic that you want to scale. Click on the 'Image' menu above your picture. Now select 'scale image'' and click on the arrow to get your desired size.

To change number of colors, click on the 'Tools' menu above your pic and select ''Color Tools' and then select
'Posterise'. I hope this info was helpful. This info is for Gimp 2.2.6, but other versions should be similar.

sys-fire

abisko00 · 05-30-2005, 02:23 PM

SUSE is using the file /boot/message as menu. This is not easily changed. You need to extract the content with cpio ('cpio -i </boot/message'), change the background picture (background.pcx), put it back into the archive and hope you did it right.

zahadumy · 05-30-2005, 03:24 PM

Thank you sys-fire. I think you worked a lot with GIMP. Have you ever tried Adobe Photoshop? :P What do you think? Which is better? Firstly, GIMP seemed great to me, but when i tried to do that very useful talk, i couldn't find it's options and... i don't know... Maybe i'm just used to Photoshop. Anyway, i have just one more question: this "xpm" format is recognized only by Linux? Because i'm quite good in Photoshop, but i couldn't edit that "xpm" file with it. Thanx.

tanm · 05-31-2005, 10:56 PM

If you are using KDE, you can use the service menu

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=21051

have fun

tanm