Changing Grub Background/Color
 

I'm having trouble changing the Grub settings. I tried Grub Customizer, and was able to change the default boot (Bodhi, of course), but no luck with the background stuff. So I tried changing the color, or adding a picture, using the terminal. No luck there either. Also tried using the file manager (Thunar), same result. I can open the etc/default/grub.cfg file, but when I look at the entries there, there is nothing re: colors (00,00,00 etc). The picture I tried was listed, but it won't open it. (It is 8 bit, 256 color, RGB so that's not the problem).

Is there something in Bodhi that is preventing me from making these changes?

Found a work-around, I installed a Gnome Grub Theme. This is a great tutorial on it if anyone is interested:

https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu...emes-on-linux/


Only problem is that after I choose the system to boot, the old spalsh screen appears for a couple of seconds. I will see if I can get that to go away, then problem will be solved. Maybe reducing the wait time from 10 to 8 seconds will do it. I'll let you know.

Problem fully solved now. Under the Advanced Settings on Grub Customizer, I was able to uncheck some boxes, like background color, text color etc. I now have just the "Primitivistic" theme (see tutorial referred to above - I chose the very basic one near the bottom.

No need for support now, but perhaps this will help some other folks out. Grub Customizer is controversial, but it can be very helpful. But the Gnome themes were also very helpful

I see you already solved. But just for the record, there shouldn't be. I changed my background image just by editing /etc/default/grub then sudo update-grub (or is it grub-update, one of those)

thanks Enigma. I did try doing that. It may be that my pictures were not usable in some way. I did use a PNG, 8 bit, 256 color, RGB only, but still it wouldn't work. I was probably doing something wrong. Somewhere down the road I'll figure it out, but I'm good for now.