Originally written: 4/19/2012; last Web page update: -3/9/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.7.8
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@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.comrEFInd identifies the current selection by displaying a partially-transparent icon "between" the OS or tool icon and the background image. The default icon works reasonably well on both solid and image backgrounds, but if you like, you can customize it by creating new icons in PNG or in Microsoft's BMP format or in PNG format. You should create both 144x144 and 64x64 images and tell rEFInd about them by using the selection_big and selection_small tokens, respectively, in refind.conf. (If you also scale your icons, you may want to adjust the selection tile images appropriately. The big image is 9/8 the size of its matching icons, while the small tile is 4/3 the size of its icons.) If you omit the large icon, rEFInd will stretch the small icon to fit the larger space; if you omit the small icon, rEFInd will use the default small icon. Because BMP doesn't support transparency (alpha channels), you must use the PNG format if you want your selection background to show the underlying image beneath it. (You can create the illusion of transparency on a solid background by matching the colors, though.)
+rEFInd identifies the current selection by displaying a partially-transparent icon "between" the OS or tool icon and the background image. The default icon works reasonably well on both solid and image backgrounds, but if you like, you can customize it by creating new icons in PNG or in Microsoft's BMP format. You should create both 144x144 and 64x64 images and tell rEFInd about them by using the selection_big and selection_small tokens, respectively, in refind.conf. (If you scale your icons, you may want to adjust the selection tile images appropriately. The big image is 9/8 the size of its matching icons, while the small tile is 4/3 the size of its icons.) If you omit the large icon, rEFInd will stretch the small icon to fit the larger space; if you omit the small icon, rEFInd will use the default small icon. Because BMP doesn't support transparency (alpha channels), you must use the PNG format if you want your selection background to show the underlying image beneath it. (You can create the illusion of transparency on a solid background by matching the colors, though.)
rEFInd's default font is a 14-point (12-point in 0.6.5 and earlier) serif monospaced font. I also include a handful of alternatives in the fonts subdirectory. rEFInd's font support is extremely rudimentary, though; it reads a PNG file that holds the glyphs from ASCII 32 (space) through ASCII 126 (tilde, ~), plus a glyph that's displayed for all characters outside of this range. Thus, rEFInd can't currently display non-ASCII characters or use proportional (variable-width) fonts. You can change the font from one monospaced font to another and change the font size, though.
-If you want to create your own fonts, you can do so. If you're using Linux, the mkfont.sh script in the fonts subdirectory will convert an installed monospace font into a suitable format. You can use it like this:
+If you want to create your own fonts, you can do so. If you're using Linux, the mkfont.sh script in the fonts subdirectory will convert an installed monospace font into a suitable format. (This script works properly for most fonts, but if a font is unusually thin or wide, you will have to adjust the let CellWidth= line near the end of the file.) You can use it like this:
$ ./mkfont.sh Liberation-Mono-Italic 14 -1 liberation-mono-italic-14.png @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ to be tedious.I used icons from the Oxygen Icons project, both from the Oxygen Refit package and from Gentoo's oxygen-icons package. These icons supplemented or replaced icons that rEFIt used; however, many OS icons (such as those for Windows and Mac OS) are carried over from rEFIt. I've also used a handful of icons for individual Linux distributions from other sources—usually documentation associated with the distribution in question.
-In addition to this default icon set, I've received word of three other rEFInd themes:
+In addition to this default icon set, I've received word of a few other rEFInd themes:
If you've created or discovered another rEFInd theme, please tell me about it so that I can provide a link to it from this page.