refind-themify

Easily theme rEFInd using a commandline interface. This repository contains some example themes based on this project. The install script has the following options:

• Select theme icon pack.
• Select background image (png or svg).
• Set icon size.
• Set font.
• Set font size.
• Enable/Disable UI.

Installation

1. Clone the git repository:

    git clone https://github.com/williamcorsel/refind-themify.git
   

2. Install dependencies: Inkscape, OptiPNG, and ImageMagick.

   sudo apt-get install inkscape
   sudo apt-get install optipng
   sudo apt-get install imagemagick
   

3. Run the install script:

   sudo ./install.sh
   

4. Fill in the script interaction prompts to set the wanted options.

Usage

The script will ask you to fill in the following options:

1. Set the install path. If your rEFInd install is not placed in the default /boot/efi/EFI/refind/ location, change this here.

2. Select icons. The script looks for icon themes in the themes folder. This folder currently contains some example icons in svg format. See here how they look.

3. Select a background image. The script looks for background images (svg or png) in the backgrounds folder.

4. Select the icon size. A few default values are provided. The svg icons will be converted to png at the requested icon size.

5. UI options. You can choose to hide certain UI elements for a cleaner look. text-only will remove the text hints that are displayed by default. all will also remove all of the secondary options. See here for more details.

6. Pick a font & font size. Leaving this empty will use rEFInd's default font. Otherwise a new font image file will be created.

Create a new theme

1. Create a new subfolder in the themes folder with the name of your theme.
2. Create three new subfolders big, small, selection in this theme folder.
3. Place your theme icons in svg format in their respective folder. The icon size must have a width and height of 128 px for the big icons and 48 px for the small icons. Use the standard image file names as presented in the included themes.

Links

• Official rEFInd website