Re: [ART] Background image for GRUB

[Ludovic Courtès]

Felipe López <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 08/11/14 09:22, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

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>>   1. I didn’t know how to get the screen’s aspect ratio so that grub.cfg
>>      would load the right image.  Any ideas?
>> 
>
> I thought that maybe you could access a platform-specific default
> resolution from a helper script using the GRUB helper library
> (grub-mkconfig) and then set the background image with an appropriate
> aspect ratio. [1] But I haven't written any script for GRUB before, so I
> don't know.

I was looking for something like a run-time function.  There’s
‘vbeinfo’, but it’s not really usable for that.  I’d need to check
whether/how other distros handle it.

> You can use these values:
>
> color_normal=light-gray/black
> color_highlight=cyan/black
>
> I tried them in this computer and they are pretty much the same colors I
> used in the mock-up.

Oh, right.  I’ve just fixed that, and that’s good.

> I'll try to provide a GRUB theme [2] when I read a bit more about how
> they work. So, maybe not for Guix 0.8.

Yeah, it doesn’t even seem necessary for this theme.

Thanks,
Ludo’.