Installed fedora after trying mint, how do i install a grub theme in Fedora 43 KDE?

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I felt like i’ve tried everything. Tried applying config with both /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and /etc/grub2-efi.cfg, tried using the install.sh file, tried moving the files manually to grub2/themes, tried changing to different grub theme, cleared the themes folder and re-copying the files, still plain old grub menu after reboot. What do i do now?

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Fyi suggest you make backups of your grub install as we hear from people that applying themes can break grub.

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there’s multiple reboot and shutdown options in the grub menu. Is it broken already?

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When booting the grub menu should only have options to select the kernel to boot (up to 3), the rescue kernel, and an option to reboot into the system bios setup menu. Nothing else should be there. (An additional option may be shown for booting windows if you are dual booting.)

If your grub menu is different then it would appear you may have something installed that changes it.

Please post the output of the following commands.

  1. cat /proc/cmdline
  2. cat /etc/default/grub
  3. cat /etc/kernel/cmdline
  4. sudo ls -l /boot/grub2/
  5. and finally sudo grub2-editenv - list
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paimen@fedora:~$ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt6)/boot/vmlinuz-6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64 root=UUID=103b0b99-cc5d-4166-a44e-2b1fbfcc9f89 ro rhgb quiet

paimen@fedora:~$ cat /etc/default/grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=30
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=“$(sed ‘s, release .*$,g’ /etc/system-release)”
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=“gfxterm”
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=“rhgb quiet”
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=“true”
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true

GRUB_THEME=“/boot/grub2/themes/tela/theme.txt”

paimen@fedora:~$ cat /etc/kernel/cmdline
root=UUID=103b0b99-cc5d-4166-a44e-2b1fbfcc9f89 ro rhgb quiet

paimen@fedora:~$ sudo ls -l /boot/grub2/
[sudo] password for paimen:
total 28
-rw-rw-r–. 1 root root 141 Oct 23 00:13 earlyboot.cfg
drwx------. 2 root root 4096 Oct 22 23:49 fonts
-rw-------. 1 root root 8737 Nov 7 10:46 grub.cfg
-rw-------. 1 root root 1024 Nov 7 07:40 grubenv
drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Nov 7 10:21 themes

paimen@fedora:~$ sudo grub2-editenv - list
saved_entry=e1e615c3229449b1bb44e18bc829bbb5-6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64
menu_auto_hide=1
boot_success=1
boot_indeterminate=0

(ps. sorry for answering so long, it was 00:00 in here when i uploaded the thread)

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Did you turn off Secure Boot? GRUB will not load a theme or even just a font if Secure Boot is enabled.

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It’s the first time i learned about secure boot. Maybe i’ll try it.