Wowie, another Minecraft grub theme! But this time it's in the style of the singleplayer world selection menu, which makes a little more sense than selecting your operating system from the main menu. There are also icons now! Isn't that great? And even better, they also include the descriptive text below each boot option!
- Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-world-sel-theme.git - [Optional]: download the background matching your screen size from here
- And copy it to
minegrub-world-selection/background.png
- And copy it to
- Copy the folder to your boot partition
cd ./minegrub-world-sel-theme sudo cp -ruv ./minegrub-world-selection /boot/grub/themes/ - Change/add this line in your
/etc/default/grub:GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub/themes/minegrub-world-selection/theme.txt - Update your live grub config by running
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
when a menuentry line in grub.cfg contains a --class <classname> option, grub will try to find THEME_DIR/icons/<classname>.png as the icon for that boot entry
Example:
# grub will try to use /boot/grub/themes/minegrub-world-selection/icons/arch.png as the icon and falls back on gnu-linux.png, gnu.png and os.png
menuentry 'Arch Linux' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-somefunnyuuid' {
...
}If you want items like Uefi Settings to have an icon, you need to add
--class uefito the menuentry line in/boot/grub/grub.cfg:
menuentry "Uefi Settings" --class uefi ...In this case you can even put it in
/etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmwareso it doesn't get overwritten when you regenerate your grub.cfg :>
The icons should look like this:
Because python would've been too simple, i wrote a rust app to generate icons like that
Usage: cargo run <class name> <first line> <second line> [world icon filepath] [output_dir]
|-> for default options use "-" or an empty string
and a bash script to generate multiple of them easily.
I think it's fun to have the distro icons look like Minecraft world thumbnails!
If you want to make one, go for it! Create a world and build, take a screenshot, make it square and put it in icon-generator/world-icons/<classname>.png (You can also position yourself, exit the world, reset the icon, enter the world, don't move and wait for a minute, leave the world, open the worlds folder and use the icon.png for more authentic image quality)
Then just add another line to gen_icons.sh, generate it (into minegrub-world-selection/icons/) and copy the theme folder into /boot/grub/themes/ again.
Feel free to share and contribute! If only screenshot, or even text and the generated product, all welcome! (only the generated .png would be a bit annoying tho if you want to adjust the text, but for colored text you can use the IconTemplate.afphoto (maybe I will export it as a psd as well sometime))
- I like writing Readme but at the same time, it takes too long and it's never perfect
- Everything feels like chaos
- I spent too much time on this
- Tell your grandparents and pets about this cool theme!
- Put it on your laptop, put it on your smartwatch put it on your schools PCs (i won't take responsibility if you get expelled)
- Install it on your mouse-with-screen, copy it to your flash drives
- Btw, have I mentioned that I use arch?
- I have a grand secret project that I may reveal soon
- Maybe it eats your food, maybe it doesn't
- Thank you internet for wisdom and funny youtube clips that kept me motivated on my journey
- Go check out the other Minegrub: Minegrub Theme
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