Re: Bugs in GfxMenu

2011-01-13 Thread Matt Sturgeon
update-grub or grub-mkconfig. Therefore, there is no neccisessity to place scripts into /etc/grub.d/ just to have GRUB include fonts. On 14 January 2011 00:54, Matt Sturgeon wrote: > Hi, as demonstrated by the attatched screenshots, the following key > undesireble behaviour is beeing displa

Bugs in GfxMenu

2011-01-13 Thread Matt Sturgeon
Hi, as demonstrated by the attatched screenshots, the following key undesireble behaviour is beeing displayed by gfxmenu in GRUB 1.99: * No icons are beeing printed for Ubuntu (probobly all Operating Systems) * The selected pixmap is beeing drawn at a larger scale than the Boot Menu. * The boxes w

Re: Is grub2 capable of displaying truetype fonts?

2011-01-12 Thread Matt Sturgeon
I don't think so, but it can convert ttf into supported font formats but I can't remember where the binary is or the syntax to use. On 12 Jan 2011 14:50, "crocket" wrote: I wonder if it is possible now. ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.or

Theme fonts

2011-01-11 Thread Matt Sturgeon
Hi, In looking at making a default theme and example theme for grub 1.99 or 2.0 u discovered that grub doesn't load fonts called be the theme file automatically, and a script in grub.d must do this. Is this still the case and can it be fixed if so? TIA

Re: Example theme mentioned in manual

2011-01-10 Thread Matt Sturgeon
or is the theme just outdated? Thanks - oh and as far as licencing, just GPL it, or are other licences more applicable for artwork? On 11 January 2011 03:19, Jordan Uggla wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Matt Sturgeon wrote: >> Hi, >> I was looking atthe GRUB Manual (1

Example theme mentioned in manual

2011-01-10 Thread Matt Sturgeon
Hi, I was looking atthe GRUB Manual (1.99) trying to work out how to install a theme, and I noticed in the first section of chapter 6 a "docs/example_theme" mentioned which I cannot find anyware. Ive looked in Bazaar repos, and downstream (Ubuntu) source/binary packages (I couldnt find the upstream

Public editable grub2 theming manual

2010-11-20 Thread Matt Sturgeon
I have decided to fork Colin D. Bennett's unmaintained manual on creating themes for Grub2's gfxmenu module. it is available to view and edit via Google Docs here. I highly recommend merging this into the Grub2 manual. I have also added a link on the Wiki FrontPage. "GRUB 2 gfxmenu Theming Manua

Re: too many commands, "help" output rolls of screen

2008-11-03 Thread Matt Sturgeon
y don't we just ad a scroll bar, like on the menu? ie. you use the up/down keys to hilite a line, when you hilite the prompt you can enter commands, the scrollbar tells you ware you are on the page. This is another instance ware mouse support would be useful: you could use the scrollbar directly

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix)

2008-10-31 Thread Matt Sturgeon
will all these fonts be included in the next release of GRUB 2? 2008/10/31 Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Update: > > I fixed an error pointed out to me by Y.Volta: > In grub_font_get(), if no fonts are loaded, a null pointer is > dereferenced. This is fixed in the attached patch. > > The

Fancy menu theme

2008-10-28 Thread Matt Sturgeon
Hi, I was looking at xfce themes and i notist that xfce has another feature, missing from GRUB 2: GRUB 2 uses the following system: [image: Box_slice_names.png]and[image: Box_slice_example_terminal.png] where as xfce uses this system: [image: Pixmaps of a xfwm4 window] they are exactly the sam

Re: GRUB 2 release?

2008-10-25 Thread Matt Sturgeon
rks yet for what's > currently stored in SVN, everyone else is still working on such things as > networking. > -- > Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

GRUB 2 release?

2008-10-25 Thread Matt Sturgeon
when will GRUB 2 be released as stable edition, and will there be an installer? a good idea for an installer would be a live-CD with a text based installer - ubuntu's alternate installer has a good example of a text-based installer (You select an option from isolinux.cfg - the boot menu - then it l