Grub Theming
"Because sometimes black and white won't cut it."
Written by Chri-Deefer
Specifically for Ubuntu, but I'm sure it's figure-out-able on other distros.
Here's how to install a Grub theme because sometimes black and white won't cut it. And neither will the unspecific tutorials that don't quite explain anything.
Step 1: Download a theme and save it to your Downloads folder. You can find one easily by googling it. My favorite one, one that was featured on my reddit post which inspired this tutorial, and the one you see above, is HyperFluent.
Step 2: Extract the files into a folder called "themes" without any sub-directories in it. Just all the files.
Step 3: Run the following commands and make sure to replace the brackets with what it says should be inside of them, and not to type anything with parenthesis into the terminal.
Step 3 Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:trebelnik-stefina/grub-customizer
sudo apt update
sudo apt install grub-customizer
sudo -s
cp /home/[username]/Downloads/themes boot/grub/
cd /
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
Step 4: You should now be in a text document which includes a bunch of stuff about GRUB. You don't need to change any of it except for 1 thing. Use the arrow keys to get to the very bottom of the file, and 2 spaces under
"GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=FALSE"
add the line:
"GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub/themes/theme.txt"
Step 5: Lastly, just run the command in a new terminal window:
sudo update-grub
(Optional) Step 6: Use the grub-customizer application we installed earlier to change the name, order, or remove options from GRUB to finish getting the most out of GRUB.
How do you like the tutorials? Tell me any questions, comments, thoughts, or somehow anything else with the email coconnell611@gmail.com!