{"id":2541,"date":"2013-12-13T13:55:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2013-12-13T13:55:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:55:42","slug":"grub-customizer-4-0-gets-ui-improvements-install-it-via-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/grub-customizer-4-0-gets-ui-improvements-install-it-via-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"Grub Customizer 4.0 gets UI improvements, Install it via PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ubuntu-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2015\" alt=\"grub customizer 4.0\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ubuntu-logo.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ubuntu-logo.jpg 170w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ubuntu-logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Grub Customizer<\/b>, graphical grub2 (Ubuntu&#8217;s default bootloader) settings manager now is at version 4.0. It has been a long time since the last version was released in September 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Grub Customizer 4.0 gets a better user interface and adds a <b>Revert<\/b> button to undo the changes. See the changelog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hiding placeholders by default (too confusing for most people, can be re-enabled at &#8220;view&#8221; -> &#8220;show placeholders&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>view options<\/li>\n<li>improved trash view (sidebar instead of separate window)<\/li>\n<li>GTKmm 3.0 (a backport to gtkmm-2.4 exists for older distributions)<\/li>\n<li>Theming (of grub)<\/li>\n<li>improved appearance settings<\/li>\n<li>script replacement detection (no more duplicates when grub scripts are replaced by an update of grub)<\/li>\n<li>backup creation on first run (allows simple restoring of the default config)<\/li>\n<li>more help texts<\/li>\n<li>fallback on systems without grub-mkdevicemap\/device.map (better compatibility)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Screenshots:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grub-Customizer-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grub-Customizer-4.jpg\" alt=\"Grub Customizer 4.0\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grub-Customizer-4.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grub-Customizer-4-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grub-Customizer-4-Appearance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grub-Customizer-4-Appearance.jpg\" alt=\"Grub Customizer 4 \" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grub-Customizer-4-Appearance.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grub-Customizer-4-Appearance-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to Install Grub Customizer:<\/h3>\n<p>The PPA is ready for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Linux Mint, Pear OS, Elementary OS 8 and other derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>To get started installing the tool, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, add the PPA via:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:danielrichter2007\/grub-customizer<\/pre>\n<p>Update package lists:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update<\/pre>\n<p>Install the tool:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install grub-customizer<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Grub Customizer, graphical grub2 (Ubuntu&#8217;s default bootloader) settings manager now is at version 4.0. It has been a long time since the last version was released in September 2012. Grub Customizer 4.0 gets a better user interface and adds a Revert button to undo the changes. 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