Hello again!
On 12.01.2015 04:18, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: >> I am wondering if there is a tool for Grub2 theme creators that they >> could run to see their theme in action >> >> * without rebooting their machine for each iteration or >> >> * need to prepare bootable machine images manually. >> >> Is there such a thing? > > Not that I'm aware of. I think using VM is the most straightforward. I built a tool [1] to do that now. It creates a minimal sparse bootable image, copies the theme in and starts KVM. It's basically the steps from my 2012 blog post [2] turned into a tool [1]. Before using the tool, be warned that: * it is alpha/beta software that * needs root permissions in some part (calling sudo) * so I don't take any warrenty for anything right now! This is how to make it preview the Archxion theme, as an example: git clone https://github.com/hartwork/grub2-theme-preview.git git clone https://github.com/Generator/Grub2-themes.git cd grub2-theme-preview ./grub2-theme-preview ../Grub2-themes/Archxion/ The current usage is: # ./grub2-theme-preview --help usage: grub2-theme-preview [-h] [--image] [--grub-cfg PATH] [--version] PATH positional arguments: PATH Path of theme directory (or image file) to preview optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --image Preview a background image rather than a whole theme --grub-cfg PATH Path grub.cfg file to apply --version show program's version number and exit More polishing and packaging soon. I'm looking forward to your patches and bug reports! Best, Sebastian [1] https://github.com/hartwork/grub2-theme-preview.git [2] https://blog.hartwork.org/?p=1807 _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
