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Grub Customizer 4.0.1 released, Install in Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives

Install Grub Customizer 4.0.1 in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/12.10 and other Ubuntu derivatives

Grub Customizer - a new graphical GRUB 2, You can now select the default boot entry, change the menu visibility and timeout, set kernel parameters, disable recovery entries and change screen resolution (GFX_MODE) - all by using Grub Customizer.
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With Grub-Customizer you can set default boot Entry/OS easily, Also visibility options provide custom time and look for new Operating System. For advance users Kernel Parameters option is available.
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Advance settings for experts
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Grub background is quite interesting feature offered by Grub-Customizer. There are options to set it manually but with this tool you can easily add any image to your grub, can set custom resolution and also font customization is available.
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Features:
  • Move, remove or rename menuentries (they stey updatable by update-grub)
  • Edit the contents of menuentries or create new ones (internally it edits the 40_custom)
  • Support for GRUB2 and BURG
  • Reinstallation of the bootloader to MBR
  • Settings like default operating system, kernel params, background image and text colors etc.
  • Changing the installed operating system by running on a live cd

What's new and fixes in this version:
  • Error when there's a visible menuentry below a hidden submenu - fixed
  • Hiding placeholders
  • View options
  • Improved trash view
  • GTKmm 3.0
  • Theming
  • Improved appearance settings
  • Script replacement detection (no more duplicates when grub scripts are replaced by an update of grub)
  • Backup creation on first run (allows simple restoring of the default config)
  • More help texts
  • Fallback on systems without grub-mkdevicemap/device.map (better compatibility)

To install Grub-Customizer in Ubuntu open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

 1)sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer

 2)sudo apt-get update

 3)sudo apt-get install grub-customizer
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  1. Anonymous24 September 2014 at 10:53

    A big relief to see my boot options getting limited to two entries. Cheers.

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