Boot Screen and Im?

[Dark Star]

Can any 1 tell me how to change the boot screen of Fesity Fawn? And how to upgrade my Gaim into pidgin

 

[kalpik]

Gaim to pidgin: *www.kalpiknigam.com/blog/2007/05/12/install-pidgin-200-on-ubuntu-feisty-with-all-plugins/

 

[omshivaprakash]

To change the boot image you got to play around with USpalsh

Follow the steps given in the following link :

*help.ubuntu.com/community/USplashCustomizationHowto

You may not find the files in the same location as they have been changing the implementation of Uspalsh in all different releases.

Post a how to once you are done with it so others can feel it

nJoy!!!

 

[praka123]

did u meant gdm menu(login screen) or grub boot menu?
gdm menu theme can be changed from ubuntu menu System>administration>Login window.
for additional gdm themes,u need to apt-get install gdm-themes

grub menu can have cool backgrounds or splashscreens(fedora and other distros by default have it),Ubuntu does not have a grub splash installed.u can apt-get install grub-splashimages and edit as root(sudo ) /boot/grub/menu.lst after first few lines add below underlined lines or make a grub-splash urself and add

## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout         15
# Pretty colours
color cyan/blue white/blue
#grub splash
[B][U]splashimage=(hd0,8)/grub/splashimages/debsplash.xpm.gz[/U][/B]

for me i have a seperate /boot partition at sda9.
for those with a single partition for ubuntu or debian or any distro,below is the format:

splashimage=/boot/grub/splashimages/splashtheme.xpm.gz

custom ubuntu splash themes can be found at:
*www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=29962
*gnome-look.org etc
U can create a GRUB splash image via gentoo guide here:
*gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Splash_image_in_GRUB

and for boot progress bar(usplash),there is another thingy from debian called splashy which does not need kernel patching etc.
patching usplash etc is a difficult hack,where splashy works easy atleast for me
u can apt-get install splasy from debian alioth added to /etc/apt/sources.list
mac os aqua splasy theme @:
*www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Aqua+for+Splashy?content=44514

 

[Dark Star]

I installed it but root(sudo ) /boot/grub/menu.lst command is not working thru terminal.. Plz clarify a bit

 

[praka123]

dude,u know how to open an editor in terminal vim or nano?
else
press ALT+F2 to get a run dialog

gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

then add.google for more resources.

 

[anantkhaitan]

Check this :
*www.schultz-net.dk/grub.html

 

[Desi-Tek.com]

sudo apt-get install pidgin

 

[QwertyManiac]

sudo apt-get install pidgin

Eh? No Pidgin in official repos. Which repo are you asking him to run this on?