BT 4 Pre-Final: Howto grub splash fix, boot splash, gui login menu, kmenu dragon icon

[carrot]

1) Howto grub splash fix:

This is a very easy fix, all you need to do is to use your favourite text editor and to edit a line in /boot/grub/menu.lst. I personally use vim so I would be doing:

sudo vim /boot/grub/menu.lst

I then search for the phrase bt4.xpm.gz:

/bt4.xpm.gz[enter]

I get this far, but vim can't find that string...

[Goldhedge]

Thank you so much for these tweaks.

The following output was generated when I ran the dragon menu icon script:

Archive: /root/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7/kmenu-dragon.zip
extracting: /home/trefayne/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7/128x128/apps/kmenu.png
extracting: /home/trefayne/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7/16x16/apps/kmenu.png
extracting: /home/trefayne/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7/22x22/apps/kmenu.png
extracting: /home/trefayne/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7/32x32/apps/kmenu.png
extracting: /home/trefayne/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7/48x48/apps/kmenu.png
extracting: /home/trefayne/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7/56x56/apps/kmenu.png
extracting: /home/trefayne/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7/64x64/apps/kmenu.png
extracting: /home/trefayne/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7/72x72/apps/kmenu.png
extracting: /home/trefayne/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7/96x96/apps/kmenu.png
checkdir: cannot create extraction directory: /etc/.skel/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7
unzip: cannot find or open /root/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7/kmenu-dragon-zip, /root/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7/kmenu-dragon-zip.zip or /root/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7/kmenu-dragon-zip.ZIP.

[stdio]

First thanks for this.

Second after installing the kdm theme manager I was getting the error that it could not find the theme file.

The fix was to to manually edit the kdmrc file and remove the quotations around the theme

 
nano /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc

from

Theme="/opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/themes/login-scan-fusion"

to

Theme=/opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/themes/login-scan-fusion

where login-scan-fusion is the theme you want.


EDIT: I also had some error with the foo.sh to install the dragon icon, though it still worked. Just reboot after running it. At least thats what I did.

[Goldhedge]

Thanks for the tips. :-)

[mcurran]

If anyone wants to restore the dragon/bt4 background for the grub menu - Here's what to put in menu.lst, just above the first menu entry:

splashimage=/boot/grub/bt4.xpm.gz

UPDATE: The kmenu dragon script is no longer needed for the latest bt4 release.

mcurran