Hi, I wanted to see the penguins on my grub boot screen and I installed the package with the penguin theme in it but the penguins do not come up, how do I change this? It is seasonal maybe and so I need to change something to set it to “always”?
See https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Animated_penguin_GRUB_splash_screen
And you need to use grub1 as bootloader (it is a “feature” of gfxboot actually, which is used by openSUSE’s grub1 to show a graphical boot menu). It is not possible with grub2.
It is seasonal maybe and so I need to change something to set it to “always”?
It’s random by default actually, but the chance that it appears increases the closer we get to Christmas…
Reading the SDB, doesn’t that merely configure the penguin animation and doesn’t actually implement?
It appears that whether the standard penguins package is accessible depends on the version of openSUSE running (likely requires MinX install with its bootloader)
I haven’t tried this, but you can probably try using my “Modify Grub” script to install a new “theme.”
https://en.opensuse.org/User:Tsu2/12.3/Modified_GRUB_Menu
The script allows you to configure the text style (ie placement, size, style but <not> content which is defined in the grub config file) and applies your custom background image. I’ve only implemented non-animated backgrounds, I assume that if the background is an animated gif or similar it should work.
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Yes.
You don’t have to “implement” it, as it is already implemented.
It appears that whether the standard penguins package is accessible depends on the version of openSUSE running (likely requires MinX install with its bootloader)
Wrong.
You just have to have gfxboot-branding-openSUSE installed, and obviously have to use gfxboot.
As mentioned already, openSUSE’s grub (1) has been patched to use gfxboot (the standard grub legacy only has a text mode menu), so it would show the penguin animation.
I haven’t tried this, but you can probably try using my “Modify Grub” script to install a new “theme.”
https://en.opensuse.org/User:Tsu2/12.3/Modified_GRUB_Menu
The script allows you to configure the text style (ie placement, size, style but <not> content which is defined in the grub config file) and applies your custom background image. I’ve only implemented non-animated backgrounds, I assume that if the background is an animated gif or similar it should work.
But that is for grub2, and that penguin animation doesn’t exist for grub2. (and it is not just an animated gif either…)
I now have penguins running across my screen. It should be noted that when swiching from grub2 to grub that you should or rather will need to generate or convert the grub menu to suite grub. Thanks