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Material Design Inspired Grub Theme

Matter Minimalist grub theme inspired by material design 2. Based on https://github.com/vinceliuice/grub2-themes Feel free to request new icons, open issues for any problem you have and/or submit pull requests. Ins

Matter

Minimalist grub theme inspired by material design 2.

Matter Grub

Based on https://github.com/vinceliuice/grub2-themes

Feel free to request new icons, open issues for any problem you have and/or submit pull requests.

Installation

Download the repo as a zip and run sudo ./set-matter.sh.

Highlight color

sudo ./set-matter.sh -p <color> (./set-matter.sh -h for list of available colors)

Removal

Executing sudo ./set-matter.sh -u will remove the theme's folder and remove it from the grub configuration.

Contributing

For adding icons or new functionalities to the script, read https://github.com/mateosss/matter/wiki

14 Open More issues
Closed

Added resolution check

The script will now check for 1920x1080 resolution and set it as the resolution if it is available, if it isn't available the script will exit.

This change introduces hwinfo as a dependency, but in case the user doesn't want to install it or just doesn't want to check for the correct resolution I added the -n switch to disable any resolution checking.

At least I have specified a number of resolutions in my grub config that I wouldn't want the script to overwrite, so instead I made it comment out the already present line and add a new one meaning that uninstalling immediately starts using the old resolutions again. I can remove this if it isn't a wanted feature.

opened Oct 24, 2019 by ahellqui 10
Closed

Matter hook disabled on grub upgrade

Matter adds to the end of the /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig script a call to itself so whenever the grub is updated (on a new kernel installation for example) matter can overwrite grub.cfg to put the icon classes in place.

However when the grub itself is upgraded, grub-mkconfig is overwritten effectively removing the Matter hook at the end, and you as an user need to "install" Matter again for keeping the correct icons.

One solution that comes to mind would be to place the hook on the package manager instead. With apt something like this would be needed. A problem with this approach is how to gracefully handle other package managers.

Hopefully there are other alternatives that you can come with. Any ideas are welcomed.

Hacktoberfest help wanted 
opened Sep 28, 2020 by mateosss 10
Closed

Can't execute matter.py (access denied or command not found)

I deleted de matter folder. I need to fix it to remove the errors that the system is giving me. If there is way to uninstall it in other way then I will install it fine. Thanks

opened Jul 24, 2020 by SergeAwen 8
Closed

Partial solution to remove ImageMagick dependency (#46)

opened Apr 2, 2021 by heyzec 7
Closed

Change user grub settings to 1920x1080 if available

Right now Matter only works properly on a 1920x1080 grub screen.

When a user runs set-matter.sh the script should detect if the resolution 1920x1080 would be available (is listed when running vbeinfo on grub terminal), and if so, change the GRUB_GFXMODE property in /etc/default/grub to 1920x1080. If 1920x1080 is not available, cancel the installation.

Read this short wiki page before starting https://github.com/mateosss/matter/wiki/Considerations

Be sure to ask in the comments for any questions!

Hacktoberfest good first issue help wanted 
opened Sep 28, 2019 by mateosss 6
Closed

Icons not showing correct

I installed icons for Linux mint and arch. Only one arch icon is showing, the Linuxmint and folder icons are missing. I'm using grub, any help or ideas?

opened Dec 18, 2020 by legendary-cookie 6
Open

-t don't work

Just installed everything necessary to emulate the grub menu with -t but got this error.

https://imgur.com/eGAdY20

opened May 1, 2021 by marcosdly 1
Open

Partial solution to Matter temporarily breaking on kernel upgrade.

I've got to admit, this was more complex task for me than my other PRs as I had to delve into how the script works. As I'm not sure how you would like to combine or split up the new functions, I'll leave that for you to decide :D

opened Apr 10, 2021 by heyzec 1
Open

Improve --image/-im flag

See issues discussed on #57 with the current feature.

opened Mar 15, 2021 by mateosss 1
Open

Improve READMEs of each folder

Matter folder structure is more or less preserved on install even though some folders don't have more than a README file. The idea behind this is that a curious user or potential contributors can read right from the repo what each folder is supposed to contain and get an idea of how Matter works in the process.

If you've been reading the project and think you can improve the description of some area that you found particularly weird, go ahead and submit a PR, hopefully it will make it easier for future readers.

documentation good first issue help wanted 
opened Oct 10, 2020 by mateosss 1
Open

error: null src bitmap in grub_video_bitmap_create_scaled.

On some installations this error appears sparingly. I'll let this issue here for anyone that gets it.

The same error mentioned in this project: https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/16 and they seem to solve it by replacing the property desktop-color for desktop-image in theme.txt and a tiny png.

It would be nice to be able to reproduce this issue and then solve it.

good first issue help wanted 
opened Oct 10, 2020 by mateosss 0
Open

Matter has too many dependencies

This is a real general issue, and I have no clue where to start to tackle it - but what do you think the chances are somebody will really install mtools, QEMU, grub2-something-something, and a ton more? I like keeping my system light - but I'd also really like to use this. Hence, I'd like to tackle killing off dependencies one by one.

Does anyone have thoughts on how we should start?

opened Oct 2, 2020 by Bobbbay 5
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