Re: Themes - how?

[Barry Jackson]

On 19/11/10 18:03, Barry Jackson wrote:
> I just cannot get any theme to work.
> I can get to a graphical font text menu, and I can display a background
> image from the theme at grub prompt with:-
> background_image /boot/themes/proto/bg.png
> but nothing more.
>
> I am using a recent trunk build of grub2-1.99 and letting grub2-mkconfig
> produce the grub.cfg.
>
> My /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and /etc/default/grub and the theme.txt are here:-
> http://barjac.pastebin.com/sRJRF1pw
>
> The theme I am trying to test with is one I downloaded in a theme pack.
>
> Video card is nvidia FX5600u.
>
> I must be missing something.
>
> Barry
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OK thanks to a link to a different set of themes from Jordan on IRC I 
can now get a theme to display and can attempt to boot from it.

However, the boot fails with a complete hang of the graphics just prior 
to log-in. I can't get to a tty, the only way out is CTRL/ALT/DEL which 
by the sound of the drive activity does an orderly reboot.

Removing the lines "set gfxpayload=keep" can sometimes fix this, but 
grub2-mkconfig always replaces these lines.

What's the solution ?