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  • Changing the Background Color of GRUB

    From tb@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 20 18:50:00 2021
    I am using Ubuntu 21.10, 64-bit.

    The current background of GRUB (2.04?) is black. I would like to change
    it to Ubuntu's default color which I believe is called "aubergine" (sort
    of a fuchsia color).

    I used the following commands (which obviously do not work or else I
    would not post this!!):

    sudo -H gedit /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.grub

    followed by

    if background_color 44,0,30 ; then
    clear
    fi

    followed by

    sudo update-grub

    After all this, the background color is still black... So, is there a
    simple way to change the background color of GRUB?
    --
    tb

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  • From Branimir Maksimovic@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Oct 21 01:18:29 2021
    On 2021-10-20, tb <[email protected]d> wrote:
    I am using Ubuntu 21.10, 64-bit.

    The current background of GRUB (2.04?) is black. I would like to change
    it to Ubuntu's default color which I believe is called "aubergine" (sort
    of a fuchsia color).

    I used the following commands (which obviously do not work or else I
    would not post this!!):

    sudo -H gedit /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.grub

    followed by

    if background_color 44,0,30 ; then
    clear
    fi

    that's an if, and does not sets color. Find out how
    to set color, I am not interrested in that...



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    7-77-777
    Evil Sinner!
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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 20 23:05:45 2021
    On 10/20/2021 7:50 PM, tb wrote:
    I am using Ubuntu 21.10, 64-bit.

    The current background of GRUB (2.04?) is black. I would like to change it to Ubuntu's default color which I believe is called "aubergine" (sort of a fuchsia color).

    I used the following commands (which obviously do not work or else I would not post this!!):

        sudo -H gedit /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.grub

    followed by

        if background_color 44,0,30 ; then
            clear
        fi

    followed by

        sudo update-grub

    After all this, the background color is still black... So, is there a simple way to change the background color of GRUB?

    Who would want to be doing it with config files, when you
    could make a GUI editor for it ? :-)

    https://tipsonubuntu.com/2018/03/11/install-grub-customizer-ubuntu-18-04-lts/

    Paul

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  • From Andrei Z.@21:1/5 to Paul on Thu Oct 21 09:07:58 2021
    Paul wrote:
    On 10/20/2021 7:50 PM, tb wrote:
    I am using Ubuntu 21.10, 64-bit.

    The current background of GRUB (2.04?) is black. I would like to
    change it to Ubuntu's default color which I believe is called
    "aubergine" (sort of a fuchsia color).

    I used the following commands (which obviously do not work or else I
    would not post this!!):

         sudo -H gedit /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.grub

    followed by

         if background_color 44,0,30 ; then
             clear
         fi

    followed by

         sudo update-grub

    After all this, the background color is still black... So, is there a
    simple way to change the background color of GRUB?

    Who would want to be doing it with config files, when you
    could make a GUI editor for it ? :-)

    https://tipsonubuntu.com/2018/03/11/install-grub-customizer-ubuntu-18-04-lts/


       Paul

    "Don't use Grub Customizer" :)

    https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/fatal-mistakes.html#ID7

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Andrei Z. on Thu Oct 21 04:14:13 2021
    On 10/21/2021 2:07 AM, Andrei Z. wrote:
    Paul wrote:
    On 10/20/2021 7:50 PM, tb wrote:
    I am using Ubuntu 21.10, 64-bit.

    The current background of GRUB (2.04?) is black. I would like to change it to Ubuntu's default color which I believe is called "aubergine" (sort of a fuchsia color).

    I used the following commands (which obviously do not work or else I would not post this!!):

         sudo -H gedit /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.grub

    followed by

         if background_color 44,0,30 ; then
             clear
         fi

    followed by

         sudo update-grub

    After all this, the background color is still black... So, is there a simple way to change the background color of GRUB?

    Who would want to be doing it with config files, when you
    could make a GUI editor for it ? :-)

    https://tipsonubuntu.com/2018/03/11/install-grub-customizer-ubuntu-18-04-lts/

        Paul

    "Don't use Grub Customizer" :)

    https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/fatal-mistakes.html#ID7


    For a color change, should be OK.

    https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=261622&start=100

    "Grub Customizer tries to do as much as possible in the usual way:
    …but all the other things are not so easy to do:

    * moving entries
    * renaming entries
    * disabling entries
    "

    Paul

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