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href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
Originally written: 4/19/2012; last Web page update:
-1/26/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.6
+5/5/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.10
I'm a technical writer and consultant specializing in Linux technologies. This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks!
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Icons
-Icon Backgrounds
+Icon Selection Backgrounds
Fonts
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Icons—rEFInd uses icons for its OSes and utilities. The vast majority of these icons are loaded from disk files and so are easily replaced without adjusting the refind.conf file. Alternatively, you can specify a new icons directory with the icons_dir token in refind.conf.
-Icon backgrounds—When an icon is selected, it's merged with a slightly larger selection icon, which you can change by specifying a new file with the selection_big and selection_small tokens in refind.conf.
+Icon selection backgrounds—When an icon is selected, it's merged with a slightly larger selection icon, which you can change by specifying a new file with the selection_big and selection_small tokens in refind.conf.
fonts—rEFInd uses a 14-point monospaced serif font by default. If you don't like this font, you can change it to another monospaced font by using the font token in refind.conf; however, the font file is a simple PNG image of the font's characters, which limits rEFInd's font capabilities.
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Of course, not all of these elements are likely to be included in all themes. You might want to change just one or two elements—say, to add an icon for your OS or to change the banner or background.
-Note: If you'd like to design a banner logo for rEFInd, please do so! I lack the sort of artistic talent required for creating logos, so I just used plain text. I'd like to have something more eye-catching, though. I don't promise to use the first logo I'm given, but if you have some ideas, or would like to discuss some ideas, feel free to e-mail me. I'm currently distributing one proposed alternative in the banners subdirectory.
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Banners and Backgrounds
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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, 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. 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 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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-Icon Backgrounds
+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.)
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-- The font name—Type convert -list font | less to obtain a list of fonts available on your computer. Note, however, that rEFInd requires monospaced (fixed-width) fonts, and most of the fonts installed on most computers are variable-width.
+- The font name—Type convert -list font | less to obtain a list of fonts available on your computer. Note, however, that rEFInd requires monospaced (fixed-width) fonts, and most of the fonts installed on most computers are variable-width.
- The font size in points
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transparency). They must contain glyphs for the 95 characters between ASCII
32 (space) and ASCII 126 (tilde, ~), inclusive, plus a 96th glyph that
rEFInd displays for out-of-range characters. To work properly, the
-characters must be evenly spaced and the PNG image area must be a multiple
+characters must be evenly spaced and the PNG image must be a multiple
of 96 pixels wide, with divisions at appropriate points. In theory, you
should be able to take a screen shot of a program displaying the relevant
characters and then crop it to suit your needs. In practice, this is likely