Description: GRUB theme employing a circular, countdown progress bar. Includes icons for a broad range of operating systems and larger fonts.
While browsing the internet for a GRUB theme to utilize on my deployments with high resolution, widescreen displays I stumbled across the "Stylish Dark" theme by vinceliuice [https://github.com/vinceliuice/grub2-themes]. I enjoyed some of the designer's choices; however, it didn't provide the experience I was looking for. As the author was kind enough to publish the resources under the GPL one has used them as a starting point to create a derivative work. The small bitmap fonts have been replaced with alternatives at larger sizes for enhanced readability. The selection of OS icons has been expanded to offer more options.
The archive contains only the theme's resources: there are no installation scripts or configuration tools. Installing the theme and configuring GRUB to use it requires superuser privileges.
1. Extract the archive in the appropriate location: GRUB's themes are commonly located at /boot/grub/themes/ 2. Modify GRUB_THEME in GRUB's default file at /etc/default/grub so it points to the recently extracted theme. [GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub/themes/Standby/theme.txt"] 3. Execute grub-mkconfig according to local documentation in order to regenerate GRUB's config file with the new theme. Generally: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
It is possible to modify GRUB's config file manually with a text editor; however, frequently discouraged.
Enjoy!Last changelog:
Version 1.7 - Minor fixes and Font rebuild.
The icon for Mac OS X was renamed to align with default entries generated by grub-mkconfig. Icon for Kali Linux added. Fonts rebuilt to provide smoother glyphs.
Unfortunately I no longer have a copy of version 1.5 or the PFF2 files created for and included with that release. Version 1.7 contains new glyphs and the font I used for menu entries in 1.5 [NanumMyeongjo ExtraBold] has returned so perhaps it will look more appealing on your display.
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Fonts from your last update looks ugly on my laptop 1366x768, can you upload version 1.5 near 1.6?
Unfortunately I no longer have a copy of version 1.5 or the PFF2 files created for and included with that release. Version 1.7 contains new glyphs and the font I used for menu entries in 1.5 [NanumMyeongjo ExtraBold] has returned so perhaps it will look more appealing on your display.