Tweaking your GRUB bootloader to look pretty can often not only be confusing but leave you with a broken system should you get it wrong! The newly launched ‘Super Boot Manager’ application, created by the developers behind graphical boot menu BURG, aims to streamline and simplify the process of tweaking boot ‘options’. Super Boot manager [...]
Using ‘proprietary/restricted’ drivers for Nvidia and ATI graphics cards often results in a less-than-perfect looking boot screen. Although purely a cosmetic flaw – it doesn’t impeded the boot speed or performance – its one that greets you time and time again. Thankfully we can ‘fix’ it. ‘Fixing’ the Plymouth boot screen in Ubuntu Open a [...]
Boot screens: generally the land of the bland. Following on from our recent report on an ‘intelligent Plymouth greeter’ script – which I nick-named ‘polite plymouth’ in my mind – created by user Shnatsel’s came the wonderful mock-up by Felipe Darder you see below. Well… I say mock-up but Shnatsel has already turned the majority [...]
Elephants and readers with a good memory may remember an ‘ambient boot splash’ proposal we featured at the end of October. For those unaware the notion was simple: “…the idea of an OS that uses the time to greet you appropriately, giving the impression that it cares.” At the time the idea was just that: an [...]
Ubuntu reached the 10 second boot time with Lucid Lynx. what if your system isn’t quite reaching that point?By using profile, a profile of your boot is kept to make your next boot faster.
Compiz does not seem to run as smoothly as Metacity on my desktop system. With With desktop effects switched on, I’d also notice tearing in areas of the screen with fast motion including in videos. I was fiddling with Compiz settings recently and managed to fix the problem entirely. If you haven’t already installed the [...]
