The Debian GRUB2 Splashimages Package
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1. How to change default GRUB2 splashimage?

   Either

    echo GRUB_BACKGROUND="/usr/share/images/grub/SOME_IMAGE.png" | sudo tee -a /etc/default/grub

   or
   
    sudo cp /usr/share/images/grub/SOME_IMAGE.png /boot/grub/background.png

   and run
   
    sudo update-grub.


2. How to make one?

  Basic instructions:
    * png file format
    * 960x720 px

3. What is commons2png.pl for?

  This script can download, scale down and convert to TGA any image available on
  Wikimedia Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/>.

  You need to
    sudo apt install liblwp-protocol-https-perl libimage-magick-perl

  Usage:
    perl ./commons2png.pl image_name.ext

  (See get_all script in source package)
  Wikimedia Commons featured desktop backgrounds are available in two categories:
   - <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Commons_featured_desktop_backgrounds>
   - <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Commons_featured_widescreen_desktop_backgrounds>

 -- Krzysztof Burghardt <krzysztof@burghardt.pl>  Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:30:08 +0100
