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author Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2016-01-01 17:51:00 +0100
committer Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2016-01-01 17:51:00 +0100
commite097d633220a415704f1c1f5e654f4eccc83e9ac (patch)
tree40faa124626373145e78e01a0820c5f32257d3e3
parentf25356376a1e868c27d28dee7fce11ee4c357fca (diff)
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Generate our own Grub font files, to fix the bad font rendering at UEFI boot.
Slackware's shipped Grub font is 19 point in size which does not scale well. Research and proposed patch by Didier Spaier.
-rw-r--r--EFI/BOOT/theme/dejavusansmono.pf2bin121271 -> 0 bytes
-rw-r--r--EFI/BOOT/theme/liveslak.txt6
-rw-r--r--grub.tpl4
-rwxr-xr-xmake_slackware_live.sh10
4 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/EFI/BOOT/theme/dejavusansmono.pf2 b/EFI/BOOT/theme/dejavusansmono.pf2
deleted file mode 100644
index 008acd4..0000000
--- a/EFI/BOOT/theme/dejavusansmono.pf2
+++ /dev/null
Binary files differ
diff --git a/EFI/BOOT/theme/liveslak.txt b/EFI/BOOT/theme/liveslak.txt
index d11a5b1..ec2bcf9 100644
--- a/EFI/BOOT/theme/liveslak.txt
+++ b/EFI/BOOT/theme/liveslak.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
#title-text: "GRUB Slackware Live Edition"
title-text: ""
#title-font: "Unknown Regular 16"
-title-font: "DejaVu Sans Mono 10"
+title-font: "DejaVu Sans Mono Bold 12"
title-color: "#5569B9"
desktop-image: "/EFI/BOOT/theme/swlogog.png"
desktop-color: "#000000"
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ desktop-color: "#000000"
width = 70%
height = 45%
#item_font = "Unknown Regular 16"
- item_font = "DejaVu Sans Mono 10"
+ item_font = "DejaVu Sans Mono Bold 12"
item_color = "lightgrey"
selected_item_color = "red"
item_height = 15
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ desktop-color: "#000000"
top = 85%
height = 5
#font = "Unknown Regular 16"
- font = "DejaVu Sans Mono 5"
+ font = "DejaVu Sans Mono Regular 5"
text_color = "red"
fg_color = "#5569B9"
bg_color = "#000000"
diff --git a/grub.tpl b/grub.tpl
index cfecd04..9652ff2 100644
--- a/grub.tpl
+++ b/grub.tpl
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ fi
# Determine whether we can show a graphical themed menu:
insmod font
-if loadfont $grubdir/theme/dejavusansmono.pf2 ; then
+if loadfont $grubdir/theme/dejavusansmono12.pf2 ; then
+ loadfont $grubdir/theme/dejavusansmono10.pf2
+ loadfont $grubdir/theme/dejavusansmono5.pf2
set gfxmode=auto,640x480
export gfxmode
# (U)EFI requirement: must support all_video:
diff --git a/make_slackware_live.sh b/make_slackware_live.sh
index aaeec27..043e590 100755
--- a/make_slackware_live.sh
+++ b/make_slackware_live.sh
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ fi
# Are all the required add-on tools present?
PROG_MISSING=""
-for PROGN in mksquashfs unsquashfs syslinux mkisofs installpkg upgradepkg keytab-lilo ; do
+for PROGN in mksquashfs unsquashfs grub-mkfont syslinux mkisofs isohybrid installpkg upgradepkg keytab-lilo ; do
if ! which $PROGN 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null ; then
PROG_MISSING="${PROG_MISSING}-- $PROGN\n"
fi
@@ -1315,6 +1315,14 @@ fi
mkdir -p ${LIVE_STAGING}/EFI/BOOT
cp -a ${LIVE_TOOLDIR}/EFI/BOOT/{grub-embedded.cfg,make-grub.sh,osdetect.cfg,theme} ${LIVE_STAGING}/EFI/BOOT/
+# Create the grub fonts used in the theme:
+for FSIZE in 5 10 12; do
+ grub-mkfont -s ${FSIZE} -bav \
+ -o ${LIVE_STAGING}/EFI/BOOT/theme/dejavusansmono${FSIZE}.pf2 \
+ /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansMono.ttf \
+ | grep "^Font name: "
+done
+
# The grub-embedded.cfg in the bootx64.efi looks for this file:
touch ${LIVE_STAGING}/EFI/BOOT/${MARKER}