Custom stdBackgroundPixel and/or menuBackgroundPixel colors?

[Evan Purkhiser]

Hi!

I've been using rEFInd for a while now and just love it!

One of the things I've noticed is after selecting a boot entry, for a
split second the screen will flash gray (#bfbfbf). I suspect this is
the same color Apple uses for their boot screen, giving rEFInd a nice
seamless integration for booting OSX on Apple hardware. However, for
other boot screens this may not be desired.

I see that two colors are defined in screen.c: stdBackgroundPixel
and menuBackgroundPixel. It looks like menuBackgroundPixel is used
to clear the screen after selecting a boot entry.

Would it be difficult to add a configuration option to set this color?

I would be willing to write a patch for this. But am not sure what the
easiest development strategy is to test my changes?

Thanks,

[Roderick W. Smith]

What version of rEFInd are you using? I changed the screen-clearing behavior with version 0.7.5, so if you're using something older than that, please upgrade and report back. If you're already using the latest version, please check your use_graphics_for option; you may want to experiment with this. (If you're launching Linux, the default should prevent this from happening -- but maybe there's a bug.)

[Evan Purkhiser]

You're right. I am using a older version of rEFInd. I'll upgrade later tonight and report back.

Thanks!

[Evan Purkhiser]

I've upgraded to rEFInd version 1.7.6. It now flashes to a slightly more blue-ish gray background before the linux kernel takes over.

I've tried a few different settings with the use_graphics_for option, but they all produced the same blue-gray screen clear.

Ideally the screen clearing color could be configurable as I use a custom color scheme for my VT101 Linux terminal during boot, so the background isn't necessarily black.