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Tiago Earth
Asked: 2024-06-14 01:35:13 +0800 CST

How to have boot page like manjaro when selecting the operating system in Ubuntu?

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I recently tested manjaro gnome edition, and after installing the boot or grub not sure what it is the page when we turn on the computer an select the operating system. i like it better than the default from ubuntu. I have ubuntu 24.04

I think is better the manjato boot page because the letters are bigger and is centered, and have a nice image, that possibly is on ubuntu. And after shutdown the computer or restart, the computer log to the last operating system what can be convinent.

And so have a better presentation and works better.

I want to install the same boot or grub mechanism on my laptop but dont know the name or if actually the same mechanism exists on ubuntu. Can anyone tell me if there exists on ubuntu ? and if so what is the name and possibly tell me how to install it.(if i can use synaptic i just need to type the name, because i already install synaptic)

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can apply Manjaro's GRUB theme as fetched from Manjaro's repository and add the minimal required configuration (use Manjaro's GRUB theme, show the menu, auto-select the last booted entry, automatically boot the auto-selected entry after 5 seconds) to the installed GRUB to make it look and behave exactly as Manjaro's (to remove Manjaro's logo, see the last section of the answer).

    1. Create a folder to store GRUB themes in /boot/grub if it doesn't exist:

      sudo mkdir -p /boot/grub/themes

    2. Download Manjaro's GRUB theme from Manjaro's repository1 and decompress and extract the usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro folder in the compressed archive to /boot/grub/themes, all at once:

      wget -O - https://mirror.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/extra/x86_64/grub-theme-manjaro-20.2-16-any.pkg.tar.zst |
    unzstd --stdout - |
    sudo tar -x -C/boot/grub/themes --strip-components=4 -f- usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro

    3. Edit /etc/default/grub so that GRUB will mimic the behavior of GRUB on Manjaro. Run sudo nano /etc/default/grub and make sure that all the key / value pairs listed below exist and are set to their specific value (on Ubuntu 24.04 with a default /etc/default/grub you'll have to add GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT and GRUB_THEME and change the others):

      • GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
      • GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
      • GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub/themes/manjaro/theme.txt
      • GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
      • GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu

    4. Update GRUB:

      sudo update-grub

    To remove Manjaro's logo, remove the following section from /boot/grub/themes/manjaro/theme.txt:

    # Logo image
+ image {
        left = 30%-250
        top = 10%-30
    file = "logo.png"
}

    1. The file's name will change if the package is updated; so if the link breaks, visit https://mirror.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/extra/x86_64 and change grub-theme-manjaro-20.2-16-any.pkg.tar.zst accordingly; this will download the theme using mirror.fcix.net, a US-based mirror; if the link breaks or you want to use a different mirror, replace the base URI mirror.fcix.net/manjaro with the base URI of an available mirror of your choice: https://repo.manjaro.org/

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  2. You can install the Grub themes by vinceluice.

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    Open a terminal and enter the following commands:

    sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/vinceliuice/grub2-themes
cd grub2-themes
sudo ./install.sh -b -t stylish

    Then reboot.

    The commands above will install the "Stylish" theme, but some other themes are available as well (see image below). Check out GitHub for more details.

    Here is how to set a custom background.

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