I hate green splash screen colour
 

Hi Folks,

It looks like I shall have to re-install my Suse 9.1 Personal (free) Linux, so this seems like the best time to ask this. I really hate the green colour of the boots/splash screen(s). Is there anything simple (and for free) that I can do to change it/them?

I don't mind that it's not full of graphics, nor do I mind that it's not animated. I just detest the colour green.

Thanks in advance. (I'm off for couple of weeks and so may not be able to reply before then.)

JessJ

Easy in desktop preferences somewhere you can change it...

Hi ctkroeker,

The question is " boots/splash screen(s)" NOT desktop

To jessj,
Here we go:

1. Grub menu is managed by something called "gfxboot" in SuSE. Change theme in /usr/share/gfxboot/themes and read the file /usr/share/doc/packages/gfxboot/README Copy the resulting file to your /boot/message (make a backup first)

2. This is the bootsplash while booting: Download some bootsplash images from bootsplash.de http://bootsplash.org Put the directory inside /etc/bootsplash/themes

For example "aqua"

Put your aqua theme in appropriate place: /etc/bootsplash/themes/aqua
edit the file: /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash
change the line Theme to "aqua".

execute (as root; backup the mkinitrd):
mkinitrd -b /boot -k <kernelname> -i <initrdname> -s 1024x768

The value for -s must be same as your image inside aqua". Remember if you have 16:9 screen it might be possible that different values like 1280x800 do NOT work. So, try with simple 1024x768 and experiment later.

Hi biophysics,

Thank you so much. (Actually, I now recall seeing a drop-down list with only one "option", of what I assume was an image file name, when I last installed Suse. Perhaps that was also a place to put a new file of this nature?) Anyway, I look forward to trying out your suggestion as soon as I'm back from my conference!

Thanks again,

JessJ