forcemerge 605705 561593 thanks Am Freitag, den 18.12.2009, 15:07 +0100 schrieb [email protected]: > Package: grub-pc > Version: 1.98~20091210-1 > Tags: patch > > hi! > > i just received the grub-pc upgrade, to find out that > /etc/grub/05_debian_theme now sources > /usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh, obviously expecting the grub > background image ($WALLPAPER) and grub menu colors ($COLOR_NORMAL and > $COLOR_HIGHLIGHT) to be set in there. but grub_background.sh doesn't exist. > neither as a file, nor as something i was able to find documented somewhere > in the package. The package desktop-base started providing the file in version 6.0.0:
desktop-base (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
* grub:
- add SpaceFun grub theme.
- add a grub_background.sh which will override settings in grub and
correctly set the default theme.
[...]
-- Yves-Alexis Perez <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:58:48
+0100
> also, for configuration issues, i guess variables like these are (and should
> be) usually set in /etc/default/grub (like the readme says. and while we're
> at it, all variables in there have the prefix GRUB_, which is generally a
> very good idea i guess)?
No, these variables are not part of GRUB's configuration but belong to
desktop-base. GRUB merely uses them to find out what should be the
default background image.
> i don't understand the rationale of
> /usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh, but even if it's a good idea as
> some sort of hook, then even if WALLPAPER was set in /etc/default/grub, it
> would be overwritten in any case. to prevent this, i guess the best solution
> would be to remove the hardcoded default values from that file, and simply
> set them as default values in /etc/default/grub resp.
> /usr/share/grub/default/grub.
I think this part of your bug report is a duplicate of #605705[1]. If
you want to set a custom wallpaper nowadays, you can either simply copy
it to /boot/grub/ or specify it in /etc/default/grub for example like
this:
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/path/to/myfile.png"
> while i was at it i also added the following variables to be able to
> configure grub-menu-passwords:
>
> GRUB_SUPERUSERS="user1 user2 ..."
> GRUB_PASSWORD_user1="cryptstring"
> ...
>
> (can be configured in /etc/default/grub, changed 00_header and grub-mkconfig
> to handle them)
Please file a separate bug for this issue if you still think it's
relevant.
Best regards
Alexander Kurtz
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