customize screen

[vsreeser]

How can I customize the screen right before login?

One computer says Kubuntu, the other says Lubuntu. Like to change both to something else. I used super-boot-manager to change the plymouth(?) screen right after login

[claydoh]

Plymouth is the splash that you see between grub and the login manager.
The login manager is usually Lightdm for KDE4 or sddm for plasma 5, where you enter your password to log in.

Which part do you wan to change?

[LinkBot]

Few Plymouth links

• Forum
• General
• Documentation
• The Laboratory

Thread: My Plymouth theme


Thread: Plymouth is for Pilgrims, not PCs

[jlittle]

How can I customize the screen right before login?

Sounds like you want to customize grub. How to go about that depends on which install controls the grub you boot your system from. Grub is an ugly, moving, beast, so "customizers" or "grub themes" work for a while then grub moves on.

However, a simple tweak is to run kdesudo kate /etc/default/grub and edit the GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR line. By default it reads GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`; change it to say, GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Kubuntu. You can also edit /etc/lsb-release (the description line) in other installs, say Lubuntu, so that grub in Kubuntu will pick that up, though that'll probably be overwritten on a release upgrade.

If you are using a UEFI system, you could use rEFInd and dispense with grub altogether. Search this forum for a how-to.

[vinnywright]

Sounds like you want to customize grub. How to go about that depends on which install controls the grub you boot your system from. Grub is an ugly, moving, beast, so "customizers" or "grub themes" work for a while then grub moves on.

However, a simple tweak is to run kdesudo kate /etc/default/grub and edit the GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR line. By default it reads GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`; change it to say, GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Kubuntu. You can also edit /etc/lsb-release (the description line) in other installs, say Lubuntu, so that grub in Kubuntu will pick that up, though that'll probably be overwritten on a release upgrade.

If you are using a UEFI system, you could use rEFInd and dispense with grub altogether. Search this forum for a how-to.

you can add background images to the grub menu ,,,,,the package grub2-splashimages

inny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ apt show grub2-splashimages
Package: grub2-splashimages
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 10.8 MB
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Grub-Devel List <pkg-grub-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Version: 1.0.1+nmu1
Suggests: grub-pc
Download-Size: 6,928 kB
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe amd64 Packages
Description: a collection of great GRUB2 splashimages
 This package contains a collection of splashimages which can be used
 for GRUB2. If you'd like your splashimage in this package send them
 as bug report to Debian BTS.

will install some usable images to /usr/share/images/grub/

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:/usr/share/images/grub$ ls
050817-N-3488C-028.tga                  BonsaiTridentMaple.tga  Moraine_Lake_17092005.tga
2006-02-15_Piping.tga                   Glasses_800_edit.tga    Plasma-lamp.tga
Apollo_17_The_Last_Moon_Shot_Edit1.tga  Hortensia-1.tga         TulipStair_QueensHouse_Greenwich.tga
B-1B_over_the_pacific_ocean.tga         Lake_mapourika_NZ.tga   Windbuchencom.tga

then all that is required is to copy one of the images to /boot/grub

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:/boot/grub$ ls
fonts             grub.cfg  i386-pc  [COLOR=#ff0000]Plasma-lamp.tga[/COLOR]  unicode.pf2
gfxblacklist.txt  grubenv   locale   splashimages

run

sudo update-grub

and it will be used .

I have my main grub (the one that I see when I start the box)with custom entry’s that point to the other installs grubs (installed to the partition the OS install is in) and all have a different background .


if you are looking to change the plymouth boot splash (the one between grub menu and login screen ) see @LinkBot's post

VINNY

[vsreeser]

you can add background images to the grub menu ,,,,,the package grub2-splashimages

if you are looking to change the plymouth boot splash (the one between grub menu and login screen ) see @LinkBot's post

VINNY

Changed the grub background with grub-customizer. Tried to use super-boot-manager to change plymouth screen. Didn't work. Got partway through linkbots link and something went wrong. Guess I'll just leave that one alone. Saw a cool looking matrix style login screen. Looking for that again and how to use it.