no easy way to change debian themes

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: grub2

There is no easy way to change splash-screens while booting up in grub2.
To change default splash-screen a user needs to do the following :-

a. Know where the splash screen images reside
b. Know the file where the information for splash screen images is
c. Change the information therein.

Hence had to find the file where splash images are

a. The files are at /usr/share/images/grub/
b. Now edit the file /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme
specifically line 16

from

for i in
{/boot/grub,/usr/share/images/desktop-base}/moreblue-orbit-grub.{png,tga}
; do

to

for i in
{/boot/grub,/usr/share/images/desktop-base,/usr/share/images/grub,/usr/share/pixmaps/splash/}/gnome-splash.{png,tga}
; do

Then do an update-grub

For normal users they should not be expected to know or do invasive
changes like this.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: grub-pc 1.96+20080724-12ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_IN
SourcePackage: grub2
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

I was wondering if this would be a good additional tab for the Startup Manager: "edit images for splash screen"

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.