enhancement: configure menu appearance

[steve6375]

It would be nice to be able to configure the menu appearance using the /boot/grubfm/config file.

e.g. change theme background or use graphics mode + specify user background image change text colours change resolution

I tried this in config file, but it keeps reverting to the theme

unset theme
export theme
export gfxmode=800x600
terminal_output gfxterm
background_image -m stretch (${user})/boot/grubfm/seven.jpg
export menu_color_highlight=yellow/dark-gray
export menu_color_normal=black/light-gray
export color_normal=yellow/black

[a1ive]

Now you can even use animated themes. example: boot.zip

[steve6375]

Any way to not use a theme for agFM? Many techs just want to add their own background image with their own logo on it so they can use it at their place of work but don't want to create and modify a grub2 theme.

[a1ive]

Any way to not use a theme for agFM? Many techs just want to add their own background image with their own logo on it so they can use it at their place of work but don't want to create and modify a grub2 theme.

They could create a theme with only one background.

[steve6375]

But when you run the agFM File Manager, it reverts back to the internal 'slack' theme and uses the background from memdisk? Or do I need to recompile as well?

[a1ive]

Or do I need to recompile as well?

yes.

[a1ive]

Now you could disable theme and use background_image.

unset theme_std;
unset theme_fm;
unset theme_open;
unset theme_info;
unset theme_help;
background_image -m stretch (${user})/boot/grubfm/xxx.png;

[steve6375]

Works :-) Thanks. I can copy the 'slack' theme. Presumably any theme would need to have all setmenu icons included too - or will icons in internal slack folder be used?

[a1ive]

You can't load a picture out side of theme menu.

[steve6375]

The example in your .zip file had wrong theme .txt files!

I have a /boot/grubfm/themes/slack folder (extracted from grubfm.iso) and I use this

export theme_std="(${user})/boot/grubfm/themes/slack/theme.txt";
export theme_fm="(${user})/boot/grubfm/themes/slack/fm.txt";
export theme_open="(${user})/boot/grubfm/themes/slack/open.txt";
export theme_info="(${user})/boot/grubfm/themes/slack/info.txt";
export theme_help="(${user})/boot/grubfm/themes/slack/help.txt";

#current theme
export theme=$theme_std

but icons not working ???

Am I doing something wrong?

[steve6375]

OK - my fault! I had modified theme incorrectly. Sorry for false alarm!

[a1ive]

The example in your .zip file had wrong theme .txt files!

???

[steve6375]

sorry, I thought it had to use the same theme.txt file.

One last query I am using

#Remove standard agFM theme
unset theme_std;
unset theme_fm;
unset theme_open;
unset theme_info;
unset theme_help;
#comment out this section if you want to keep the agFM themed menu system
unset theme
set resolution (1024x768 recommended)
set gfxmode=1024x768
#menu colours - format: text/background  (black background=transparent)
#black,blue,brown,cyan,dark-gray,green,light-cyan,light-blue,light-green,light-gray,light-magenta,light-red,magenta,red,white,yellow
set menu_color_highlight=yellow/black
set menu_color_normal=light-green/black
set color_normal=light-gray/black
#add either your background image or a fill colour - use stretch or normal - .png, .tga, .jpg, or .jpeg
background_image -m stretch (${user})/boot/grubfm/seven.jpg
#valid fill_colors: black,blue,brown,cyan,green,gray,magenta,red,white,yellow

But I am getting the hotkey info list under the menu

Can I stop the hotkey menu from appearing?

[a1ive]

No.

[steve6375]

OK. Thanks for the changes.