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bigpup
 Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 13981 Location: S.C. USA |
This is another topic about this by nic007: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1090933947&t=111448 There are more xpm images posted there. This is for Grub4dos boot loader that comes in most Puppies. Attached are some images that can be used for the boot menu. Unpack the tar.gz package after download. If you want to make your own xpm images. They are limited to max of 14 colors. Size of 640X480. How to make them work: 1. Locate the Grub4dos menu.lst file 2. Click on it to open in a text editor 3. You are going to modify the first few lines in the menu.lst (lines 1 to 4) 4. Make them look like this:
5. place an image.xpm file in the exact location of the menu.lst file. 6. Put the name of the image.xpm in the splashimage= Example:
Now the menu.lst will look like this:
7. Save the changes to the menu.lst 8. Reboot to see the new menu. Here is example of (step 5) where to place the xpm image files. Only need one, but this shows all of them:
_________________ The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem. When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected 
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bigpup
Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 13981 Location: S.C. USA |
By default Grub4dos menu uses white for the lettering and black for the background. What do the foreground= and background= do? foreground= will control the color of the lettering in the boot menu. background= will control the color of the background. To use them. Remove the (#) from in front of the line. Place a code for the color to use after the (=) Example:
White letters and red background NOTE: Changing the background= to something other than default black, does not look to good. It overrides the color in the image.xpm. I just do not use it by keeping the (#) at start of the background= line. TIP: For foreground= White always seems to look good. Color to choose is going to depend on the background color of the image.xpm you are using. Not so dark green works. Dark to light blue on some works. Sometimes black. etc...... Xenilapup has the program Gcolor2 color chooser that will give you the color codes. Can also get them from mtPaint program palette editor. _________________ The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem. When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
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nic007
 Joined: 13 Nov 2011 Posts: 3444 Location: Cradle of Humankind |
Are the xpm images still limited to 14 colours? Anyways, here is my thread about this topic, I also attached some xpm images I made myself to that thread. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1090933947&t=111448 |
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Sailor Enceladus
Joined: 22 Feb 2016 Posts: 1566 |
I believe scientist got 32-bit color working by using grub4dos 0.4.6 alpha instead the normal 0.4.4: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=879329#879329 I used these backgrounds in 0.4.4 on my dad's laptop (currently hubble.xpm, he likes space  ).
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bigpup
Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 13981 Location: S.C. USA |
Thanks nic007!!! I was looking for that topic of yours. I will put a link to it in the first post. Thanks!!! Multiple topics on the same subject is kind of a thing on this forum.  
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