Grub2 Icons

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#1

Hello,

this is my first post in this forum :slight_smile:

I’m really a newbie of the OpenSUSE distro.

Currently on my laptop I have installed and configured these OS: OpenSUSE (13.1) (the default OS :D), Ubuntu 14.04, Windows 8.
I noticed that at the boot, grub show me the Windows ICON to the left of the menu string, I’d like to ask you how can I add the other icons for the other OS?
I tried to search inside the forum and I found this link: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/479866-icons-other-distros-boot-menu
But it’s seems that it is not applicable to my case since I’m using UEFI boot.
I installed on my gnome desktop the grub-customizer but it doesn’t have any option to enable the icon visualization.

Thank you in advance for the help!
Bye

#2

Menu entries are generated by “menuentry” command in grub.cfg (/boot/grub2/grub.cfg). One of parameters for “menuentry” command is --class. This directly corresponds to icon shown in menu. I.e. in case of “menuentry … --class foo --class bar” grub2 will search icondir (/boot/grub2/icons by default) for icons with name foo.png, bar.png in that order and display the first one found.

#3

Hi arvidjaar,

thank you for your response :slight_smile:
Your advice works great!!

I’d like to ask you if you can suggest me a gnome tool, different from grub-customize (that has few options), to customize grub

THANK YOU :slight_smile:
Bye

#4

No, I’m not aware of any such tool. You would need to create icons manually and put them in place.