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Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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Post by jaimehrubiks » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 2:37 PM UTC

Love it!

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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Post by andrewstuart2 » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 2:39 PM UTC

I misread this as "Microsoft Grub Theme" and was definitely interested in the irony. This is super fun, though, and impressive. I didn't know you could do all this in a grub theme.

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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Post by jehb » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 2:40 PM UTC

mrrsm wrote: post #9

I like the fact there are multiple splash tags even though "I use Arch BTW" is a great one.

For anyone else looking for the whole list, here it is:

https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme/blob/main/resourc...

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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Post by XzAeRosho » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 2:45 PM UTC

the_gipsy wrote: post #10

Now someone needs to write a renderer so that the world-background camera also spins around!

Is that even possible in Grub? Last time I checked there was a tool called "Burg" that would animate backgrounds like a gif, but otherwise it was very clunky and not a great experience.

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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Post by deutschepost » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 2:49 PM UTC

Maybe a bit off topic, but does anyone know about themes or GUIs for LUKS password entry? The command line version has pretty unintuitive behaviour for family members which are used to modern GUIs.

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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Post by cyber_kinetist » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 2:53 PM UTC

the_gipsy wrote: post #10

Now someone needs to write a renderer so that the world-background camera also spins around!

It would be a pretty fun project to write a CPU software rasterizer that works in UEFI… (Obviously GPUs are out of the question, but it might be possible to use multiple CPU cores)

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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Post by jamesfmilne » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 2:53 PM UTC

On Rocky Linux 8, I had to change GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT to "gfxterm", then it would pickup the GRUB_THEME value.

My kid uses Grub all the time to reboot into Windows to play Minecraft Bedrock Edition, this will boggle his mind.

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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Post by cwillu » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 2:56 PM UTC

The original title from the document less ambiguously describes the content: “A Grub Theme in the style of Minecraft!”

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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Post by atahanacar » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 2:57 PM UTC

deutschepost wrote: post #15

Maybe a bit off topic, but does anyone know about themes or GUIs for LUKS password entry? The command line version has pretty unintuitive behaviour for family members which are used to modern GUIs.

Plymouth? I tested it a long time ago but I can remember it having a password entry prompt.

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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Post by weberer » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 2:57 PM UTC

jamesfmilne wrote: post #17

On Rocky Linux 8, I had to change GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT to "gfxterm", then it would pickup the GRUB_THEME value. My kid uses Grub all the time to reboot into Windows to play Minecraft Bedrock Edition, this will boggle his mind.

>reboot into Windows to play Minecraft Bedrock Edition

And thus the "Extinguish" step is complete.