{"id":505,"date":"2013-07-10T06:16:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T06:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=505"},"modified":"2013-07-10T06:16:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T06:16:19","slug":"easiest-way-to-change-grub2-bootloader-background-wallpaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/easiest-way-to-change-grub2-bootloader-background-wallpaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Easiest Way to Change Grub2 bootloader Background Wallpaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grub is the default boot loader of Ubuntu Linux. Since Grub2 there&#8217;s an easy way to change its background wallpaper, without any third-party software. <\/p>\n<p>All you need is the picture file you want to set as background. Supported file format: jpeg, tga, and png.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To get started:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.) Open Nautilus as root account by pressing <b>Alt+F2<\/b>, then type <b>gksudo nautilus<\/b> and hit enter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/open-nautilus-asroot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/open-nautilus-asroot.jpg\" alt=\"open-nautilus-asroot\" width=\"363\" height=\"210\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/open-nautilus-asroot.jpg 363w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/open-nautilus-asroot-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.) Navigate to Computer\/Home\/your-user-name, copy the picture and paste it into <b>\/boot\/grub<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/boot-grub.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/boot-grub.jpg\" alt=\"boot-grub\" width=\"500\" height=\"210\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/boot-grub.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/boot-grub-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3.) Now apply the changes by running this command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):<\/p>\n<pre>sudo update-grub<\/pre>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find &#8220;Found background image: picture-name.jpg&#8221; in the output.<\/p>\n<p>Reboot and see the magic!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grub is the default boot loader of Ubuntu Linux. Since Grub2 there&#8217;s an easy way to change its background wallpaper, without any third-party software. All you need is the picture file you want to set as background. Supported file format: jpeg, tga, and png. To get started: 1.) Open Nautilus as root account by pressing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-grub2-background-wallpaper"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}