README.md

Minimalistic rEFInd theme

ARCHIVAL NOTICE: I no longer use rEFInd (even though I've never seen anything more prettier) and just use the default EFI bootloader in my laptop firmware instead and will hence be no longer maintaining this. Please feel free to fork if needed.

rEFInd is a simplistic boot manager for UEFI based systems. This is a clean and minimal theme (dark variant) for it forked from EvanPurkhiser's theme.

Usage

1. Locate your refind EFI directory. This is commonly /boot/EFI/refind though it will depend on where you mount your ESP and where rEFInd is installed. fdisk -l and mount may help.

2. Create a folder called themes inside it, if it doesn't already exist

3. Clone this repository into the themes directory.

4. To enable the theme add include themes/rEFInd-theme/theme.conf at the end of refind.conf. For the dark theme, use include themes/rEFInd-theme/theme_dark.conf.

Here's an example menuentry configuration (from the screenshot)

menuentry "Windows 10" {
	icon /EFI/refind/themes/rEFInd-theme/icons/os_win.png
	loader /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
}

menuentry "Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.1 LTS" {
	icon /EFI/refind/themes/rEFInd-theme/icons/os_ubuntugnome.png
	volume "2ea3ea21-dec5-4bb4-a1a9-e7d3a857904c"
	loader /vmlinuz.efi.signed
	initrd /initrd.img
	options "root=PARTUUID=2ea3ea21-dec5-4bb4-a1a9-e7d3a857904c ro quiet splash"
	submenuentry "older kernel" {
		volume "2ea3ea21-dec5-4bb4-a1a9-e7d3a857904c"
		loader /vmlinuz.old.efi.signed
		initrd /initrd.img.old
	}
	submenuentry "GRUB" {
		volume "c95d1e6c-339c-4dd4-b08d-9067e783cbb0"
		loader /EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
		initrd
		options
	}
	submenuentry "to single user mode" {
		volume "2ea3ea21-dec5-4bb4-a1a9-e7d3a857904c"
		loader /vmlinuz.efi.signed
		initrd /initrd.img
		options "root=PARTUUID=2ea3ea21-dec5-4bb4-a1a9-e7d3a857904c ro quiet splash single"
	}
	submenuentry "to recovery mode" {
		volume "2ea3ea21-dec5-4bb4-a1a9-e7d3a857904c"
		loader /vmlinuz.efi.signed
		initrd /initrd.img
		options "root=PARTUUID=2ea3ea21-dec5-4bb4-a1a9-e7d3a857904c rw recovery nomodeset"
	}
}

Entries that are autodetected should also show the proper icons.

Background sizes

If you find the background looks blurry it may be due to the included wallpaper being an incorrect resolution for your monitor. You can download the original high quality wallpaper, resize it as appropriate, and replace the background.png.

You can of course also choose your own background!

Attribution

The OS icons are from Lightness for burg by SWOriginal.

The background is Minimalist Wallpaper by LeonardoAIanB. Thank you to Padster for locating it!