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If you want to use a full-screen background but also include the rEFInd logo, you can merge the two in a graphics editor by including the refind_banner-alpha.png image from the banners subdirectory of the rEFInd package in your background.
+Beginning with rEFInd 0.7.8, it's possible to stretch or shrink any image to fill the screen. To do so, you should use the banner_scale option in refind.conf: Set it to noscale (the default) to use small banners as such or to crop larger images; or set it to fillscreen to adjust your banner's size to exactly fill the screen. This should be particularly handy for theme developers who want to use a full-screen background image, since you can now do this with just one image file.
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Icons
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-- You can create new icons, place them in a subdirectory of rEFInd's main directory, and tell the program to use the new icons by setting the icons_dir token in refind.conf. This will affect the appearance of the OS tags, the utility tags, and so on. The names of these icons should match those in the icons subdirectory (although you can substitute PNG for ICNS files, with a suitable filename change), and are fairly self-explanatory. OS tags should be 128x128 pixels, while tags for 2nd-row utilities should be 48x48 pixels. If an icon is missing from the directory specified by icons_dir, rEFInd falls back to the icon from the standard icons subdirectory; thus, you can replace just a subset of the standard icons. rEFInd can use icons in either Apple's icon image (ICNS) or Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format. PNG files are easier to generate on most platforms. You can generate ICNS files in various Apple programs or by using the libicns library (and in particular its png2icns program) in Linux.
+- You can create new icons, place them in a subdirectory of rEFInd's main directory, and tell the program to use the new icons by setting the icons_dir token in refind.conf. This will affect the appearance of the OS tags, the utility tags, and so on. The names of these icons should match those in the icons subdirectory (although you can substitute PNG for ICNS files, with a suitable filename change), and are fairly self-explanatory. The default size for OS tags is 128x128 pixels, tags for 2nd-row utilities are ordinarily 48x48 pixels, and drive-type badges are 32x32 pixels by default. If an icon is missing from the directory specified by icons_dir, rEFInd falls back to the icon from the standard icons subdirectory; thus, you can replace just a subset of the standard icons. rEFInd can use icons in either Apple's icon image (ICNS) or Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format. PNG files are easier to generate on most platforms. You can generate ICNS files in various Apple programs or by using the libicns library (and in particular its png2icns program) in Linux.
- You can do as above, but place your new icons in the default icons subdirectory. This method is discouraged because using the install.sh script to upgrade rEFInd will replace your customized icons.
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- You can provide an icon for boot loaders stored in the root directory of a filesystem by placing a file called .VolumeIcon.icns or .VolumeIcon.png in that volume's root.
-- You can set a custom badge (the 48x48-pixel icon that identifies the disk type) by creating a file called .VolumeBadge.icns or .VolumeBadge.png in that volume's root. This setting applies to all the boot loaders found on this volume, even if they're in subdirectories.
+- You can set a custom badge (the icon that identifies the disk type) by creating a file called .VolumeBadge.icns or .VolumeBadge.png in that volume's root. This setting applies to all the boot loaders found on this volume, even if they're in subdirectories.
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+- You can adjust the sizes of icons by using the big_icon_size and small_icon_size tokens in refind.conf. These tokens adjust the size of the first-row OS and second-row tool icons, respectively. The big_icon_size option also indirectly sets the disk-type badge size; badges have sides that 1/4 the size of OS icons. The icons provided with rEFInd are 128x128 for OS icons, 48x48 for tools, and 32x32 for badges. The big_icon_size and small_icon_size tokens cause these icons to be scaled to the desired value; however, for best results you should replace your the default icons with ones generated natively in the desired size. (PNG and ICNS are both bitmap formats, and so will be degraded by scaling operations.) Because ICNS is limited in the sizes it supports, you're better off using PNG if you want to create larger icons.
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Icon Selection Backgrounds
-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 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 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.)
Fonts