Themeing GRUB (was Re: Any theme planned for FC 6)

[Andy Shellam]

Hi,

I've managed to get this working now.  There are only a couple of things 
I can think of that I did differently to last time:

- Created a new image on Fedora Core 5 GIMP 2.2.10 (rather than Windows 
GIMP 2.2.11)
- Indexed the image (14) and saved as splash.xpm - then ran "gzip -S .gz 
splash.xpm", rather than saving directly in GIMP as a .xpm.gz

Thanks for the help!

Andy.


Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Andy Shellam wrote:
>> Hi Mairin,
>>
>> I'd tried that - I'd found the same tutorial in various different 
>> versions across the Net.
>
> Guess what?  I followed the same document and it worked perfectly from
> the first try... (http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/temp/splash.xpm.gz)
>
>> It might help to know that the image I created was in GIMP 2.2.11, 
>> developed on both an FC5 and Windows XP system under GIMP (I believe 
>> the tutorial was on GIMP 1.x so I'm not sure if file formats have 
>> changed or anything silly like that.)
>
> I used whatever Gimp is in updates for FC5, 2.2.12-1 and worked as 
> expected.
>
>> If need be I could send the image for someone to take a look at?
>
> I guess we can have a look at it, you must be doing something wrong.
>
>> Máirín Duffy wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok, so one of the installer team guys pointed me to this article on 
>>> customizing GRUB's boot screen:
>>>
>>> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/current/jayanth.html
>